by Ivan Israelstam | Feb 16, 2022 | CCMA, Corporate, Dismissal, Employment Contracts, HR POLICIES, Labour Court, Labour Law, Labour Law for Employers, Labour Relations Act, Retrenchments, TRANSFER OF BUSINESS SERVICES
Over the past decade, millions of employees have been retrenched. One would have thought that, by now, companies would be so lean that further retrenchments would not be feasible. Despite this, large numbers of retrenchments are still occurring; and employers need to...
by Ivan Israelstam | Feb 7, 2022 | CCMA, Corporate, Dismissal, Employment Contracts, HR POLICIES, Labour Court, Labour Law, Labour Law for Employers, Labour Relations Act, TRANSFER OF BUSINESS SERVICES
The law does not allow new employers that take over a business in terms of section 197 of the Labour Relations Act (LRA), to retrench or otherwise dismiss any employees for reasons related to such takeover. The LRA requires the new employer, in a takeover as a going...