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During any retrenchment exercise employers are faced with the difficult task of choosing and applying fair and objective selection criteria. The Labour Relations Act, 1995 does not state expressly what selection criteria is fair and objective. Over the years, our courts have commonly accepted t...

The remaining public holidays for 2015 are: Human Rights Day, Saturday 21 March Good Friday, Friday 3 April Family Day, Monday 6 April Freedom Day, Monday 27 April Workers’ Day, Friday 1 May Youth Day, Tuesday 16 June National Women’s Day, Sunday 9 August Public Holiday, Monday 10 August...

After the festive season many employers will be left in the dark regarding the whereabouts of some of their employees that have failed to return to work in 2015.Did the employee find another job or is the employee absent as a result of illness or other circumstances beyond his control? The truth is ...

On 1 January 2015 the Labour Relations Amendment Act (No.6 of 2014) (LRAA) will take effect, with the exception of s37(c), and South African businesses will have to comply with the new obligations created in the the Act. The LRAA signals a move by government to streamline the country’s labour ...

The wave of amendments to employment legislation has seen a codification of the case law relating to the principle of 'equal pay for equal work'. The principle has been codified by s198 of the amendments to the Labour Relations Act, No 66 of 1995 (LRA) and by the amendments to s6 of the Empl...