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TOP UK LAW FIRM SAYS STAFF CAN WORK FROM HOME FOR A 20% PAY CUT! IS THIS APPROACH PROBLEMATIC? Can we consider implementing this in...

We’re doomed… Or at least we’re doomed if negotiators and mediators don’t start paying heed to the new negotiation style gaining traction...

Does anyone still read the small print? On our media devices alone we accede to roughly 20 000 words of Terms and Conditions a day – some...

In a world where reconciliation and mediation should be the order of the day, it appears that all parties have become more rigid in how...

Given how I have spent the last twenty or so years of my career, I tend, at second blush, when evaluating individuals in their careers,...

Setting your team up for success: What managers need to know when dealing with potential disciplinary offences. Dealing with difficult or...

Do they constitute victimisation? Recently, we have been receiving a fair amount of enquiries about how staff should deal with their...

1910 after the declaration of the South African union 1924 Industrial Conciliation Act provided for the registration of Trade Unions(TU)...

Are unions a thing of the past? Should civil society take over from them? Is Cosatu too close to the government and is its past role...

In Gbenga-Oluwatoye v Reckitt Benckiser South Africa (Pty) Limited and Another (2016) 37 ILJ 2723 (CC), the Constitutional Court ("the...

I have spent considerable time recently evaluating the practicalities of implementing the Bill on the NMW at numerous clients’ requests....

Nerine Kahn spent 10 years fixing the CCMA. What a decade of achievement! A superb interview conducted with a straight shooter In 2006,...

Let’s face it, South Africa is a country of great opportunity. And we have made great strides over the course of our young democracy....

We live in a world of accelerating change. New industries are constantly being born and old ones are becoming obsolete. A report by the...

In South Africa, in fact, the world seems upside-down. We live in a world where the working class masses voted Britain out of the EU,...

Increasingly employer organisations, trade unions and government policy makers are realising that the social and economic costs of mental...

Mobbing is ‘bullying on steroids’, a horrifying new trend where a bully enlists co-workers to collude in a relentless campaign of...