by Ivan Israelstam | Oct 23, 2018 | Employees, Labour Law, Labour Law for Employers
Section 6(1) of the Employment Equity Act (EEA) prohibits employers from unfairly discriminating, directly or indirectly, against an employee on numerous grounds, including gender and sex. In my view, gender discrimination occurs, for example, where the employer...
by Ivan Israelstam | Aug 30, 2018 | CCMA, Labour Law for Employers
Employers too often try to remove their older employees from employment in order to ‘make way for new blood’, or because such employees sometimes move more slowly or ‘do not fit in’. However, such employees are protected by the Employment Equity Act (EEA), which...
by Ivan Israelstam | Aug 30, 2018 | Labour Law, Labour Law for Employers, Labour Relations Act, Retrenchments
The CCMA and Labour Court are wise to employers who misuse retrenchments in order to get rid of employees who they do not want. Due to this and the dire consequences of such misuse, employers should consider the retrenchment route only when there is a genuine...
by Ivan Israelstam | Aug 1, 2018 | CCMA, Employees, Labour Law for Employers
All grievances should be treated with great care in order to establish their validity and to ensure that they are given appropriate attention. Some employers are too soft and trusting when receiving grievances and give in even before establishing whether the grievance...
by Ivan Israelstam | Jul 23, 2018 | Employees, Labour Law, Labour Relations Act
Where employees disrupt the workplace the operations of the business can be seriously affected. Employees who behave in a disruptive manner might do so for a variety of reasons including: Abuse of alcohol or other substance Incompetence – that is, while the employee...
