In recent times there have been many amendments to our labour laws regarding fixed-term contracts and temporary employment services. Employers can fix an employee’s employment period by stating that the individual is employed for a specific period of time or for a specific project. Should an employer require the fixed-term employee to work for [...]
Business owners and managers, who comprise the ‘employer’ component of any workplace are often in the best position to make decisions to suit the profitability of the enterprise concerned. Employers may want to change business operations regularly to ensure growth and sustainability. In practice, organisational change goes against the grain of the terms and conditions [...]
Employers often find themselves in situations at the CCMA or a Bargaining Council where an applicant or a union alleges that a certain transgression made by an employee, was not stipulated in their contract of employment. This issue is usually raised when an applicant alleges that a specific duty, does not form part of [...]
An employer is often faced with a situation where an ex-employee shows up at the workplace to come and collect his/her “Blue Card”, a terminology used in relation to an UI-19 form. Your HR department, would have already notified the Department of Labour that you have stopped making any further contributions for this specific citizen, [...]
Employers often find themselves being dragged to the CCMA, when they believe that the applicant is not an employee. Almost in all cases the intention of the employer was never to regard the individual as an employee, but are vexed with a rude awaking when they realise that South Africa’s labour law, has made provisions [...]
At the beginning of an employment contract, the employer can set a probationary period in order to evaluate the worker’s performance before confirming the appointment. […]