THE IMPORTANCE OF A JOB DESCRIPTION!
A job description generally contains essential job requirements, duties, responsibilities, and skills required to play the specific role. We often get asked whether an employee may reject an instruction to …
Can an employer recover losses from employees’ pension moneys?
The short answer is yes. Section 37D (1)(b)(ii) of the Pension Funds Act 24 of 1956 allows employers to request the pension fund to withhold or deduct members’ pension benefits …
ADVICE TO EMPLOYERSIS THE CONTINUED RELATIONSHIP REALLY INTOLERABLE?
Item 92 of the CCMA’ Guidelines: Misconduct Arbitrations, provides that when an employer is contemplating dismissing an employee, the employer should ask themselves whether “the continued relationship intolerable”. In the …
Can we do background checks on recruits?
Employers are often charmed by applicants, that they neglect doing background checks before employing them. This is however, a crucial procedure in preventing fraud against the company. In seeking to …
What is your company’s retirement age?
We are often asked whether an employer can insist that an employee retires as he/she has now reached some discretionary “retirement age”. And then we also get asked whether the …
HR Retainer Packages
WANT RELIABLE HUMAN RESOURCES SERVICE? At Law@Work, flexibility is the cornerstone of everything we do. While some may prefer to take advantage of our expertise on an ad hoc basis, others may …
NEW EARNINGS THRESHOLD
The Minister of Employment and Labour adjusted the Basic Conditions of Employment Act (BCEA) earnings threshold as of 1 April 2024.The new threshold will be R254 371,67 per annum, which …
Recognising and preventing workplace bullying
The Minister of Employment and Labour has published the new Code of Good Practice on the Prevention and Elimination of Harassment in the Workplace in terms of the Employment Equity …
Mental health in the workplace
Mental health in the workplace refers to employees’ psychological, emotional, and social well-being within a shared work environment. According to the World Health Organisation “WHO”, an estimated 264 million people …
Stealing from the hand that feeds you
We very often hear that an employee who was found to have defrauding or stealing from his/her employer was “the last person they expected this from”. Employers often ask: Why …