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Don’t Shake the Procedural Tightrope
1st October 2025 Section 188 and Schedule 8 of the Labour Relations Act (LRA) were born from the constitutional right of accused employees to a fair chance to... →
Inconsistency disturbs the balance
29th August 2025 Unprotected strikes will often merit dismissal where the employer has not provoked them. However, even where there has been no provocation, such... →
Alcohol and tightropes don’t mix
31st July 2025 Employers too often assume that employees who have alcohol in their systems at the workplace automatically deserve to be fired. While alcohol... →
Conditional reinstatements shake the labour law tightrope
30th June 2025 When it has been found that an employee has been unfairly dismissed the Labour Relations Act (LRA) requires arbitrators and judges to use... →
Constructive dismissals are destructive
29th May 2025 Where an employee successfully alleges that his/her resignation was involuntary and was coerced by the employer, the resignation becomes a... →
Don’t rely on prescription of backpay orders
28th March 2025 I recently warned employers not to rely on technicalities in trying to win labour law cases. At the core of the purpose of labour legislation is... →
Proof crucial for substantively fair retrenchment
3rd March 2025 To have a chance of winning a case at the Labour Court a party must present proof to the judge. What parties do not understand is that they are... →
Irrational retrenchments rock the tightrope
31st January 2025 Despite ‘GNUphoria’ a large number of companies are still experiencing severe financial difficulties arising from the fallout of Covid, electricity... →
