Distinguishing pay and income: Section 27 of Employment Equity Act In the context of section 27 of the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998 (EEA) in South Africa, which deals with income differentials and disproportionate income...
Read MoreEmployment Equity Act : Annexures EEA4 and EEA9 Explaining why the current occupational levels are flawed Understanding how occupational levels should apply in practice Recommended seven level structure Levels Performance...
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Read More“When the Employment Equity Act was being negotiated in 1997, a most unusual provision was inserted at the insistence of the trade union side. This became section 27 of the EEA, which states that every designated employer must...
Read MoreAvoiding so-called retrenchments These are unprecedented times and senior managers in most companies are facing difficult decisions to ensure the survival of the enterprises. A first reaction may be to ‘contemplate’...
Read MoreAmcu v Wozani Berg Gasoline An experienced commissioner pondered about the difficulty faced by senior management when faced with rewarding longer service. ‘If the finding was that the differential between the wages of the...
Read MoreIntroduction to draft Sector Code for the accounting profession For many years it has been suggested that EEA9 in the Employment Equity Act (EEA) is a flawed structure because it fails to give proper effect to the elimination of...
Read MoreToday I happened upon a post in the blog of the Energy Research Centre (ERC) on 5 June 2017 recording with great sadness that Bill Cowan had passed away. Bill Cowan (right) with colleagues Patrick van Sleight and Gamieda...
Read MoreSun International Ltd v Saccawu obo Ramerafe Market related forces or external parity as opposed to internal equity considered and this judgment of the labour court is extremely important because it outlines the proper approach...
Read MoreCwu v SA Post Office SOC LtdIrrational pay differentials but CCMA refused to grant any relief because the union failed to prove that the differentials were based on any prohibited ground and in a sense the union was really...
Read MoreAfrican Meat Industry & Allied Trade Union / Premier FMCG (Pty) LtdSeniority justifying differentials in pay does not accord with the principles of proportional pay differentials because it completely distorts the...
Read MoreSasol Chemical Operations (Pty) Ltd v CCMA Pay differential dispute and a good example of why it is necessary to create a framework of seven decision-making or occupational levels in any enterprise and to ensure that within each...
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