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Bad Employers, Bad Employers, Whatcha gonna do?  Whatcha gonna do when they come for you? During September 2024, the Department of Employment and Labour (“Department”) conducted over 2500 [...]

Terminating employment due to being arrested – Is this legal? Many employers believe that the employment relationship automatically ends if one of their employees is arrested or imprisoned. This [...]

COSATU gave notice to NEDLAC of their intention to embark on nation-wide protest action on Monday, 7 October 2024. What does this mean for employers? The intended protest action stems from [...]

In the matter of CHEMICAL, ENERGY, PAPER, PRINTING, WOOD AND ALLIED WORKERS’ UNION OBO LUVUYO / ENGEN PETROLEUM – (2023) 32 NBCCI 7.1.2 [2023] 4 BALR 327 (NBCCI) The employee was [...]

PROTEST ACTION 1.  COSATU will be calling upon all workers to support a socio-economic protest action by engaging in various forms of protests.  2. The forms of protest actions and actions in [...]

In a landmark ruling in Mogale and Another v National Health Laboratory Services (JS958/2019) [2024] ZALCJHB 362 (13 September 2024), the Labour Court awarded damages in favour of the National [...]

The Department of Health has re-presented the Tobacco Products and Electronic Delivery Systems Bill to the portfolio committee on health, kick-starting the process to get the laws passed once [...]

The Tobacco Products and Electronic Delivery Systems Bill 2018 (“the Bill”) prohibits smoking in any prescribed outdoor public place and, more importantly from an employment law perspective, at [...]

In the case of MOHLWAADIBONA V DR JS MOROKA MUNICIPALITY (J718/21) [2022] ZALCJHB 91 (18 MARCH 2022), the employer, which is a municipality, was placed under administration.  [...]

Ever met the chain smoker who, notwithstanding the hints, complaints and frowns, continues to smoke in his office or open areas in the work place, clearly in defiance of the law and the [...]