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Does an employee have a duty to disclose any action which potentially is in conflict with their employer?
Bakenrug Meat (Pty) Ltd t/a Joostenberg Meat v CCMA and Others (LAC) (CA8/2020, 18-1-2022) (Davis JA with Savage AJA and Waglay JP concurring). The appellant’s business involves producing and selling a range of meat products. It employed the third respondent employee as a sales representative in October 2013. In October 2016, the employer became aware…
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In Mosikili v South African Board of Sheriffs [2022] 2 BLLR 197 (WCC), the applicant, a Sheriff falling under the jurisdiction of the South African Board for Sheriffs (the respondent), was found guilty on a slew of charges for misconduct. The respondent’s Disciplinary Committee recommended that the applicant be barred from acting as a Sheriff.…
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