Legal Opinion
Can you discipline an employee for their comments on social media?
- Published on 4 Jan 2013
- Jacques van Wyk and Michiel Heyns
The recent dismissal of a staff member at a daily newspaper in Johannesburg for making inappropriate comments on Twitter about the publication poses new dilemmas for South African employers: Can they forbid their employees from disclosing their company’s identity on Facebook, Twitter or other social media profiles? Moreover, is it within the employer’s rights to discipline an employee who refuses to comply?
You must have rules for your employees
- Published on 2 Jan 2013
- Ivan Israelstam
You may, after you have implemented the necessary statutory procedures properly, dismiss employees and give one of the following as the reason:
What happens when an employee refuses to retire but he’s fired instead?
- Published on 13 Dec 2012
- Jonathan Goldberg
This is exactly what happened in the Labour Appeals Court case: Karan t/a Karan Beef Feedlot v Randall – (2012) 21 LAC 1.11.52. Let’s take a look at the background of the case.
Private dispute resolution: A good option
- Published on 22 Nov 2012
- Ivan Israelstam
All HR and IR professionals will know how important a quick yet fair and effective dispute resolution is. This means that HR and IR professionals need to take control of this process by ensuring that top-quality officials preside over all labour law-related processes.
The crucial difference between “trapping” and “entrapment”
- Published on 13 Nov 2012
- Jonathan Goldberg
Theft in South Africa poses a huge danger to employers - from employees ‘borrowing’ the company’s scissors or pen, to removing large quantities of the company’s product to resell. So it is no wonder that employers will try anything to get the theft to stop.
And sometimes that anything includes entrapment.
