We offer Labour Law and Industrial Relations consulting services to companies throughout South Africa.
CONSULTING SERVICES:
Our expertise includes:
- Advice on all labour related matters
- CCMA representation
- Chairing of disciplinary hearings
- Dealing with Trade Union matters
- Design of HR/IR policies/ procedures and contracts
- Development of HR/IR policies, procedures strategies
- Dispute resolution
- Drafting & negotiating recognition agreements
- Employment contracts
- Industrial relations audits
- Legal advice
- Outsourcing strategies
- Preparing parties for disciplinary hearings
- Retrenchment management
- Retrenchments and restructuring
- Strike handling
- Trade union interface
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DON’T DISCIPLINE EMPLOYEES TWICE FOR THE SAME OFFENCE
South African labour law requires all discipline to be corrective rather than punitive. When an employer disciplines an employee twice for the very same incident of misconduct the CCMA is likely to see this as punitive. It is only under highly exceptional...
THE RISK OF USING FIXED-TERM CONTRACTS FOR PERMANENT POSITIONS
South African employers often lose at CCMA and bargaining councils in cases relating to fixed-term contracts. A key reason for this is that employers do not understand the legal purpose of fixed-term contracts and the circumstances under which they are safe to...
VICTIMISATION VS INCOMPATABILITY
Employees who lodge grievances OR CCMA disputes are too often victimized for exercising their rights. Such victimization often takes the form of dismissals for incompatibility. A case in point is the one of Jabari vs Telkom SA (Pty) Ltd (2006, 10 BLLR 924). Here, the...