by Ivan Israelstam | Apr 10, 2019 | CCMA, Labour Law, Labour Relations Act, Retrenchments, Unfair Dismissals
South African labour law strongly protects people employed in South Africa. Furthermore, our courts do not easily give up jurisdiction to foreign courts. When a foreign embassy is situated in South Africa it is in fact, according to law, based on foreign soil. A South...
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...