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Read MoreIf a public official voluntarily resigns from employment, the payment to him or her of a “golden handshake” would not be consistent with the duty of his or her employer in terms of section 51 of the Public Finance...
Read More“Discontented with the arbitrator’s award, the unions took it on review to the Labour Court shortly thereafter. Last week, the Labour Court upheld the arbitrator’s award in favour of Eskom, and dismissed the unions’...
Read MoreNum v CCMA (Eskom) (JR388/14) [2016] ZALCJHB 508 ; [2017] 4 BLLR 405; (2017) ILJ 1869 ? (15 December 2016) per Lagrange J. At the request of the trade unions the labour court reviewed an arbitral award concerning an interest...
Read More“Instead of load shedding, we have truth shedding. When the lights went off in 2007, politicians relented and allowed Eskom to build power stations. But they did not implement the rest of their restructuring and liberalisation...
Read More“Our government has a simple choice: it can perpetuate its energy catastrophe or join the twentieth century before it is too far behind us. If it wants us to be a modern, energy-rich country, it should repeal the ban on...
Read MoreIf Eskom’s monopoly is perpetuated South Africa’s electricity will be close to the world’s most expensive electricity and guarantee economic stagnation. ‘The solution requires nothing new, creative or costly, merely the...
Read MoreBy seeking to reconcile section 65, 70 and 74, no additional limitations are placed on the right to strike, save where these are expressly so provided by the LRA.
Read MoreThe question to management and unions is: why are the labour law frameworks not being used correctly?
Read More‘Apart from challenges to the constitutionality or interpretation of that legislation or the development of the common law where there is no legislation, the right plays no other role and does not constitute a separate source for a cause of action’
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