Legal 2
Claiming for skills development clarified
- Published on 16 Jan 2013
- Karlien Scholtz
Government enacted the Skills Development Levies (SDL) Act 1999 to provide a framework to implement strategies that will develop and improve the South African workforce’s skills.
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.
BEE is not just for fatcats
- Published on 12 Dec 2012
- Juliet Newton
When people hear the phrase ‘BEE’, many of them roll their eyes, think, or make some comment about the Black Billionaire gravytrain tenderpreneur fatcats, and dismiss the entire concept.
