Important employment legislation signed into law
On Friday, 23 November 2018 the President signed various employment legislation into law. Of relevance, the National Minimum Wage Bill was signed into law which Bill is expected to benefit […]
PAID OR UNPAID LEAVE DURING TIMES OF UNREST
We are often confronted with the question, especially from our large mining clients, whether employees are legally entitled to be paid where they have been absent from work for reasons […]
Assign Services Judgment 26th July Constitutional Court
The Labour Relations Act provides that employees, who earn below the earnings threshold (“vulnerable assignees”) and are placed by a Temporary Employment Service (commonly known as a TES or labour […]
The Labour Laws Amendment Bill – addressing paternity leave, adoption leave and surrogacy leave
The Labour Laws Amendment Bill 29, 2017 (the “Bill”) essentially seeks to amend the provisions contained in the: Basic Conditions of Employment Act, 1997 (“BCEA”) by adding new statutory rights […]
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