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Pulse | Occupational health and safety: A guideline

Last month, the Department of Employment and Labour (‘the Department’) published a new guideline for employers and employees on the core elements of health and safety in the workplace. Simplifying the key facets of the Occupational Health and Safety Act

Pulse | Reforming the visa regime: Home Affairs gazettes amendments to Immigration Regulations

Earlier this month, the Department of Home Affairs published the revised – and much anticipated – requirements for obtaining a remote work visitor visa, and introduced a new and innovative points-based system for work visas under the Third Amendment of

Pulse | Labour law update: The Labour Appeal Court clarifies the role of conciliation in large-scale retrenchments

This month, the Labour Appeal Court (‘the LAC’) handed down a seminal judgment in NUMSA v SAA Technical SOC Ltd. Centring on an analysis of section 189A(7)(b)(ii) of the Labour Relations Act (‘the Act’), the case provides much-needed clarity on

Pulse | What is the impact of the increase to the earnings threshold on employees?

On 1st April 2024, the earnings threshold officially increased from R241 110.59 per annum to R254 371.67 per annum pursuant to section 6(3) of the Basic Conditions of Employment Act. The threshold is designed to safeguard vulnerable, lower-earning employees from

Affirmative action : only a shield? Or also a sword? Harmse v City of Cape Town (2003) 24 ILJ 1130 and Dudley v City of Cape Town (2004) 25 ILJ 305 (LC) : case

Abstract The Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998 (hereinafter “the EEA”) which gives more detailed content to the right of equality enshrined in section 9 of the Constitution of South Africa, compels employers to promote equality in the workplace by

Dignity, Renovations and Farm Workers’ Accommodation

Earlier this month, the Constitutional Court handed down a judgment dealing with the right of a domestic worker to renovate her dwelling on her employer’s farm at her own expense. The improvements were meant to bring the dwelling to a

Pulse | Occupational health and safety: A guideline

Pulse | Reforming the visa regime: Home Affairs gazettes amendments to Immigration Regulations

Pulse | Labour law update: The Labour Appeal Court clarifies the role of conciliation in large-scale retrenchments

Pulse | What is the impact of the increase to the earnings threshold on employees?

Affirmative action : only a shield? Or also a sword? Harmse v City of Cape Town (2003) 24 ILJ 1130 and Dudley v City of Cape Town (2004) 25 ILJ 305 (LC) : case

Dignity, Renovations and Farm Workers’ Accommodation

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