Archive for Feb 2019

Disciplining Employees

We recently assisted one of our Monthly Retainer Plan (MRP) Client’s in disciplining one of their Employees for misconduct. We were required to draft the necessary employment contracts for the Client. One of the Employees for whom the contract was intended had committed misconduct and had been issued with a Verbal Warning by the Client…

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Review Applications – The long wait

Our Client was employed by a very large and well known conglomerate in December 2007 and was dismissed for alleged misconduct in September 2015. The Company instituted disciplinary proceedings against our Client on 12 June 2015 wherein they charged her for “Refusal to obey lawful instruction and insubordination committed on 8 June 2015”. They had…

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Refused Promotion and Employee’s Rights

Our client approached us in light of what she believed was an unfair recruitment process for the position of HOD at the school she was employed. Her expectations were exacerbated by the fact that she had been acting in the position of HOD prior to the official appointment. We assisted our client in approaching a…

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Fixed term contracts and retrenchment: How does it work?

Our Client was an NGO. They employed ten Employees on fixed term contracts for a period of one year, being 1 October 2017 to 30 September 2018 for a particular project. The NGO was funded by various donors on various projects. When our Client was informed of the decision on 21 November 2017 to close…

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Pension fund contributions

Our client has been employed by a single employer since 1993. In terms of his employment contract, his employer was obliged to deduct a pension fund contribution from his salary at the rate of 6.6% and it was obliged to pay its portion of contributions at the same rate, to the fund. Our client found…

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Delays in bringing a review application to the Labour Court

Recently, a client approached us for help in bringing a review application to the Labour Court. The client had already gone through the motions of a disciplinary hearing, appeal against the outcome and then a referral to the CCMA, all of which were decided against the client. The arbitrator ruled in favour of the Employer…

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Failure to promote: What are your options?

Recently, a client came to us for advice regarding her Employer’s failure to promote her to a position she felt was rightly hers. Our client was for some time acting in that positon while her Employer sought to find someone to do the job. The client went for an interview amongst other candidates and was…

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Follow up: Unethical Lawyers and the Dangers of Working with them

We previously posted an article titled “Unethical lawyers and the dangers of working with them”. To recap it should be noted that our client received “an order equal to 4 months’ salary” which amounted to R 120 000.00 at the CCMA, based on an unfair dismissal dispute. Our client then approached us to enforce the…

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Breaching a Restraint of Trade: What is the solution?

Facts: Recently, a client approached us with a matter that involved a disgruntled employee that had breached their restraint of trade clause. By breaching a restraint of trade clause the employee therefore breached a clause of their contract which calls for a claim for damages, specific performance, repudiation or even implementing an interdict to stop…

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