by Ivan Israelstam | Jan 23, 2023 | Employees, Employment Equity Act, Labour Brokers, Labour Court, Labour Law, Labour Law Debate with Ivan Israelstam, Uncategorised
BY Ivan Israelstam, Chief Executive of Labour Law Management Consulting. He may be contacted on (011) 888-7944 or 0828522973 or on e-mail address: ivan@labourlawadvice.co.za. Go to: www.labourlawadvice.co.za. South Africa’s government is seriously considering...
by Ivan Israelstam | Dec 21, 2022 | Employees, Employment Equity Act, Labour Brokers, Labour Court, Labour Law, Labour Law Debate with Ivan Israelstam, Uncategorised
BY Ivan Israelstam, Chief Executive of Labour Law Management Consulting. He may be contacted at (011) 888-7944 or 0828522973 or on e-mail address: ivan@labourlawadvice.co.za. Go to: www.labourlawadvice.co.za Early last year I informed readers of the CCMA’s decision...
by Ivan Israelstam | Dec 9, 2022 | Employees, Employment Equity Act, Labour Brokers, Labour Court, Labour Law, Labour Law Debate with Ivan Israelstam, Uncategorised
Since 1995 South African people in leadership positions have talked at NEDLAC about the need for drastic steps toward our economic development. Nearly three decades later, South Africa is so underdeveloped that we have frequent water outages, blackouts for many hours...
by Ivan Israelstam | May 11, 2021 | CCMA, Employment Equity Act, Labour Court, Labour Law, Labour Law for Employers, Unfair Dismissals
While labour law allows employers to discipline employees who pretend to be ill, the laws also protect genuinely ill, injured, and disabled employees. Firstly, the Basic Conditions of Employment Act entitles ill or injured employees to sick leave of one day’s paid...
by Ivan Israelstam | Nov 20, 2020 | CCMA, Employees, Employment Contracts, Employment Equity Act, Labour Court, Labour Law, Labour Law for Employers, Tools, Unfair Dismissals
The protection of employees reaches even beyond the actual consummation of the employment contract. That is, the courts have found that the employee is protected by labour law from the moment the employment contract is concluded even if the employee has not yet...
by Ivan Israelstam | Apr 20, 2020 | Employment Equity Act, Labour Court, Labour Law for Employers, Labour Relations Act, Sexual Harassment
The Employment Equity Act (EEA) prohibits sexual harassment of employees by other employees and holds the employer liable in such cases even if the employer does not know that sexual harassment is going on. The courts have upheld this provision. For example, in the...
