Discipline
When an employee resigns in the face of disciplinary action
- Published on 20 Nov 2012
- Jan Truter
It is not uncommon for an employee to resign when he is faced with a disciplinary hearing. But what if he does not resign? Can you offer that the employee resigns instead of undergoing disciplinary action?
Controlling shop stewards is tough
- Published on 19 Nov 2012
- Ivan Israelstam
HR and IR professionals pull their hair out when a shop steward’s activities draw a line manager into assaulting, threatening or otherwise ill-treating the shop steward.
Fiction becomes reality: The admissibility of recorded telephonic discussions
- Published on 9 Nov 2012
- Jonathan Goldberg
Employers frequently have questions that in effect are answered by if the evidence, in the particular case, is admissible. Davids v Special Investigation Unit 2011 12 BALR 1275 CCMA is one such case that deals with the admissibility of recorded evidence.
Back to basics: Rethinking disciplinary hearings
- Published on 27 Jul 2012
- Helen Wilsenach
The challenge
South African employment law is perceived by many organisations and companies as being somewhat onerous on employers. However, there is one area where it is the employer who has arguably become its own worst enemy – disciplinary proceedings.
