Employment Law

Employment law update – What remedies are available to TES employees to enforce similar treatment?

In Bata SA (Pty) Ltd and Another v Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers’ Union obo Members and Others [2024] 8 BLLR 866 (LAC), Scribante Labour Consultants (Scribante) operated as […]

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Employment Law Update – Unfair discrimination in recruitment process

In Landman v Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and Another [2024] 7 BLLR 746 (LC) a white male candidate, Mr Landman, alleged that he was unfairly discriminated against on […]

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Employment Law Update – The feasibility of ‘bumping’

In SACTWU obo Members v Fyvie G N.O and Others (LC) (unreported case no D258/2020, 5-5-2024) (Norton AJ), the respondent, a father and son, managed two farming operations in KwaZulu-Natal, […]

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Employment Law Update – Is workplace drug testing subject to a blanket ban? Unpacking Enever v Barloworld Equipment

On the 23 April 2024, the Labour Appeal Court (LAC) in Enever v Barloworld Equipment South Africa, a division of Barloworld South Africa (Pty) Ltd [2024] 6 BLLR 562 (LAC) […]

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Employment Law Update – Reinstatement remedies

In Jacobs v Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration and Others [2024] 5 BLLR 517 (LC) the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) found a dismissal substantively unfair but […]

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Employment law update – May 2024 – Section 197 transfer

In Katiso Transport and Logistics CC and Another v Eagle Liner Transport (Pty) Ltd and Others [2024] 3 BLLR 255 (LAC) the Labour Appeal Court (LAC) had to determine whether […]

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Employment law update – Runaway employee?

In Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union obo Judas v Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration and Others [2024] 2 BLLR 138 (LC), during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, […]

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Employment law update – Automatically unfair dismissal in the case of a protected disclosure

In Railway Safety Regulator v Kekana [2024] 1 BLLR 40 (LAC) a senior manager was dismissed after lodging a grievance about the Chief Executive Officer’s (CEO’s) alleged unlawful conduct. In […]

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Employment law update – January/February 2024

In Epibiz (Pty) Ltd v Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration and Others [2023] 11 BLLR 1188 (LC), the employee was employed by Epibiz (Pty) Ltd (the Company) in the […]

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Employment law update – Testing positive for marijuana in the workplace

In Marasi v Petroleum Oil and Gas Corporation of South Africa (SOC) Ltd [2023] 10 BLLR 1043 (LC), the employee was denied entry to the workplace after he was tested […]

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