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Providing appropriate redress: Inadequate compensation tendered

by GilesFiles | Nov 18, 2024 | 2020 onwards, Allowed, Appeals, BCEA 1997 (LRL 10), Causes and defences, Contractual breach, Courts, Declaratory, Evidence & onus, Interpretation etc, Judges, Jurisdiction & powers, Just and equitable, Labour Appeal Court, Labour Relations, LAC judges, Lawfulness & fairness, LC Rules, Legal Practice, Legislation, LRA 1995, LRA 8a: 185-197B Dismissal, LRA 8a: 189 and 189A see Termination, Micro enterprises, Objective - correctness, Operational reasons, Orders, Parties, Personal services, Private enterprises, Protect not punish, Resolving disputes (LRL 3), Review tests, Rules Codes & Manual, Sectors, Statutes (LRL 2)-work, Statutory, Termination (LRL 8), Topics | 0 |

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Delayed review process: Lapsed and archived

by GilesFiles | Nov 4, 2021 | 2020 onwards, Conduct & capability, Costs, Courts, Harass & bully, Insights, Judges, Labour Court, Labour Court judges, Labour Relations, LC Rules, LCP Manual, Legal Practice, LRA 1995, LRA 7: 112-184 Dispute, Management, Micro enterprises, Mining, Orders, Parties, Policies - all, Private enterprises, Resolving disputes (LRL 3), Review tests, Rules Codes & Manual, Sectors, Statutes (LRL 2)-work, Struck off, Topics | 0 |

For subscribers only Whilst some judgment summaries are available to all, this judgment summary is reserved for subscribers only. If you are already a subscriber, you can login to see this judgment summary. If you cannot login,...

Labour market features: Balancing conflicting interests

by GilesFiles | Dec 30, 2020 | AA - Resources generally, Collective Bargain (LRL 5), ERelations (LRL 1), Free and fair, Insights, Labour Relations, Markets in SA, Micro enterprises, philosophy / economics, Reforms required, Thought Leaders, Topics | 0 |

On 14 July 1994 the then Minister of Labour, Tito Mboweni, delivered a speech to the Labour Law Conference in Durban entitled “The New Labour Market: Prospects for Accommodation and Conflict” and explained the...

Health safety measures: Covid-19 latest directive

by GilesFiles | Apr 29, 2020 | AA - Resources generally, BCEA 1997 (LRL 10), Consumer protection, Covid-19 issues, ERelations (LRL 1), Insights, Labour Relations, Legislation, Micro enterprises, Parties, Private enterprises, Sectors, Statutes (LRL 2)-work, Topics | 0 |

Mainly in the interests of those who do not have direst access to the Government Gazettes this post sets out the latest Directive regarding health and safety in the workplace which also affects a small business, but not to the...

Job creation: Vested interests must fall

by GilesFiles | Nov 2, 2016 | Bargaining councils, Collective Bargain (LRL 5), Insights, Labour Relations, Micro enterprises, Organisations (LRL 4), Parties, philosophy / economics, Reforms required, Thought Leaders, Topics | 0 |

“We need to confront the uncomfortable reality that where bargaining councils are strong, companies are uncompetitive and do not create jobs. This means that the transformation drive must not only focus on tackling the social...

Small employers exempted: Part-time fixed-term

by GilesFiles | Dec 21, 2015 | BCEA 1997 (LRL 10), Labour Relations, LRA 1995, LRA 9: 198-213 General, Micro enterprises, Reforms required, Statutes (LRL 2)-work, Thought Leaders, Topics | 0 |

Generally speaking small employers have up to 9 employees. Alternatively for the first 23 months a business, not formed by dividing or dissolving an existing business, will still be regarded as small whilst employing up to 49...

Discrimination: Tim Modise and Herman Mashaba

by GilesFiles | May 26, 2015 | Discrimination (LRL 11), Micro enterprises, Reforms required | 0 |

Herman Mashaba is very critical of race based economic transformation policies, saying they will undermine economic growth and polarise society. He calls on government to amend the labour laws and to invest in good quality...

Liberate small business and relax labour laws

by GilesFiles | Sep 12, 2014 | AE - Leon Louw, BCEA 1997 (LRL 10), ERelations (LRL 1), Insights, Micro enterprises, Thought Leaders, Work Science Institute | 0 |

Leon Louw equates SA’s small-business policy to a ‘mother feeding a baby with one hand and throttling it with the other’ with the Cabinet and most government departments and agencies contributing to a relentless tsunami of...

Secondary strike action: Things fall apart

by GilesFiles | Jul 30, 2014 | 2014 and earlier, André van Niekerk, Anton Steenkamp, Associations/corporates, Collective Bargain (LRL 5), Courts, Free and fair, Judges, Labour Court, Labour Relations, Micro enterprises, Organisations (LRL 4), Power plays (LRL 6), Strike - secondary, Thought Leaders, Topics, Trade unions, Work Science Institute | 0 |

With Numsa threatening that its members will embark on secondary strike action it is worth considering the differences between primary and secondary strikes. Unlike any legitimate protected primary strike action the labour...

Restrictive legislation constraining small business

by GilesFiles | Mar 18, 2013 | Micro enterprises, Reforms required, TES - LRA 198 | 0 |

It is failure on the jobs front that is staggering. Since the ANC came to power, unemployment (including “discouraged” work-seekers) has doubled from 3.7-million to 7.6-million, yielding a rate of 36%. No doubt...

Entrepreneurs: What we really need

by GilesFiles | Feb 11, 2011 | Micro enterprises, Reforms required | 0 |

“If the workers are asked to exercise restraint, so should the directors in order that everybody keeps his or her job”.

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