Workplace Harassment Law South Africa: The 2026 Standard For decades, employers built their compliance frameworks around the visible and the physical: guardrails, hard hats, incident reports, injury registers. Harassment law grew up in that same shadow, written to...
Unilateral Contract Changes: What Employers Must Know Every few months, a client arrives with a version of the same problem. A round of restructuring, a cost-cutting drive, or simply a change in operational preference leads management to decide that shift patterns...
New Code of Good Practice Dismissal Rules Explained For close to three decades, the words disciplinary hearing meant, in practice, a courtroom-style process: notice of charges, an independent chairperson, cross-examination of witnesses, and a paper trail thick enough...
R1.8 Million Unfair Dismissal Cap: What Employers Must Know For three decades, one principle has anchored unfair dismissal law in South Africa: reinstatement is the primary remedy. Section 193 of the Labour Relations Act (LRA) instructs the CCMA and Labour Court to...
Probation Dismissal Law in South Africa: What’s Changing Employers have been buzzing about a proposed change to probation dismissal law in South Africa that would, for the first time, create something resembling at-will employment during a new hire’s first...
Zero-Hours Contract Law South Africa: New Section 9B Rules For years, staff engaged on unpredictable schedules, project-based facilitators between SETA intakes, technical staff called out for site work, contractors booked on an as-needed basis, have lived with the...