by Ivan Israelstam | Aug 3, 2016 | Employees, Labour Law, Labour Law for Employers, Unfair Dismissals
The August winds are spreading infections amongst and workplace absenteeism is rife. The challenge for employers is to distinguish the genuine cases of illness from those where employees are just sick of working. The Labour Relations Act (LRA) requires that...
by Ivan Israelstam | Jul 24, 2016 | CCMA, Employees, Labour Law, Labour Law for Employers
The cold wind of strike season is with us again and is causing more chills than the winter weather. The loss of production and of customers is usually the first consequence of a strike. However, indirect strike costs incurred later can be just as serious. In the case...
by Ivan Israelstam | Jun 15, 2016 | Employees, Labour Law, Labour Law for Employers, Unfair Dismissals
Item 4(1) of the Code of Good Practice: Dismissal (the Code) attached to the Labour Relations Act (LRA) states, in effect, that the employer should conduct an investigation and allow the employee to state a case in response to disciplinary allegations as part of the...
by Ivan Israelstam | May 30, 2016 | CCMA, Employees, Labour Law, Labour Law for Employers
Employees do not ordinarily have an automatic entitlement to a pay increase or to advancement up the corporate ladder. However, the Labour Relations Act (LRA) does allow employees who have been passed over for promotion to lodge an unfair labour practice dispute at...
by Ivan Israelstam | May 24, 2016 | CCMA, Employees, Labour Law, Labour Law for Employers, Unfair Dismissals
Section 6 of the Employment Equity Act (EEA) prohibits unfair discrimination against an employee on arbitrary grounds One of these grounds is that of religion. This means that no employer is entitled to discriminate against an employee or applicant for employment...
by Ivan Israelstam | May 4, 2016 | Corporate, Employees, Labour Law, Labour Law for Employers
In 2011 I alerted readers to four new labour bills set to bedevil employers and likely to further discourage employment. Three of these have now been in place for over a year. The new LRA amendment act has the effect that: members of minority trade unions are able to...
