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Does employer branding fall under HR, marketing, or both?
[Leigh Andrews] To get employer branding right you need to think like your employees, not like your customers. But whose task is it, really? Employer Branding SA's Celeste Sirin unpacked the topic in a full-day masterclass on Thursday, 19 March... read more>>



Entrepreneurship
Government appears to be listening; SMEs encouraged to keep engaging with the State in 2015
The 2015 Budget revealed a serious commitment from the state to growing small businesses - in this climate of constructive reform; SAICA's second SME survey could encourage the Department for Small Business Development (DSBD) to institute even more effective changes... read more>>
What entrepreneurs need to know about expanding your workforce
Entrepreneurs often take on many roles within their own business as they believe it is solely their responsibility to make a success of the business and often times they have to play these roles when the business is still small and cannot afford additional staff... read more>>
Last 50 chosen for The #Hack.Jozi Challenge
The last 50 teams for The #Hack.Jozi Challenge have been chosen... read more>>
Attacq funds R2.4m collaboration with Property Point
Attacq has partnered with Property Point: A Growthpoint Initiative in an innovative R2.4 million collaboration for enterprise development... read more>>
Gauteng plans to boost agro-processing

Luyolo Mkentane

Hundreds of emerging farmers gathered in Soweto, Johannesburg recently to hear from agriculture stakeholders how they planned to turn Gauteng into an agro-processing hub in the continent... read more>>
Jobs & Recruitment
SME survey sheds light on job creation
South African small businesses are ready and willing to create jobs - but some things are going to have to change to motivate them to do so... read more>>
Style, in a class of its own

Issued by Ayanda Mbanga

Nothing like the promise of a new season to move you to review where you've come from, looking at what you could/would/should have done, while at the same time looking ahead at what you can still achieve... read more>>
Labour Law & Unions
Labour Relations Act amendments alert

Jacques van Wyk and Andre van Heerden

The amendments to the Labour Relations Act 66 of 1995 (LRA), as embodied within the Labour Relations Amendment Act 6 of 2014 (amendment act) became effective on 1 January, 2015, save for a few key amendments which are only due to become effective on 1 April 2015... read more>>
Extension for Compensation Fund returns gives SMEs some breathing space

Madelein van der Watt

The Department of Labour has extended the deadline for Return of Earnings for employers registered with the Compensation Fund to 31 May 2015. These returns are usually due by the end of March each year... read more>>
SABC News to scrap bulletins in Afrikaans, vernacular languages?
NEWSWATCH: SABC News is reported to be doing away with bulletins in Afrikaans and other vernacular languages, reports Thinus Ferreira, in Channel24... read more>>
Transformation in legal profession requires more than meeting equity targets

Stephen Thomson

The South African legal profession is transforming. Of that there is no doubt. One merely has to look at the improving levels of racial and gender equality on the South African bench for proof of the good work being done around employment equity and transformation across the profession... read more>>
Employers not obliged to accept medical certificates from traditional healers

Faan Coetzee and Kgotso Matjila

Employees have not been permitted to provide traditional healers' certificates as proof of incapacity after a period of absenteeism from the workplace. This is due to the lack of an established professional council as required by s23 of the Basic Conditions of Employment Act, No 75 of 1997 (BCEA)... read more>>
Labour Court emphasises duties of commissioners

Fiona Leppan and Bryce Bartlett

Can one review a decision of a commissioner who fails to provide cogent reasons for his decision? read more>>
Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr contributes to global labour legislation report
Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr contributed the South African chapter of a report entitled, A Global Employment Guide to Business Transfers, compiled by the DLA Piper Global Employment team... read more>>
Management
The ACCA releases Corporate Behaviour report
The boardroom plays a critical role in channelling corporate behaviour. Boardrooms not only play an initiating role in defining corporate culture, but are key players in implementation... read more>>
Top three qualities of a good manager
Experts say managers need three very important skills to retain staff and run profitable business... read more>>
Brush up on your corporate values

Niteske Marshall

Company values. If the mere mention of those two words has you yawning and about to tune out...listen up! read more>>
Changing your employee engagement strategy
It is acknowledged that in the service industry, the way a company's employees engage with their clients can make or break that company... read more>>
5 signs that it's time to automate your payroll

Sandra Swanepoel

With human resources and payroll departments under more pressure than ever before, a modern automated payroll solution is essential for any business... read more>>
Deadline to meet revised B-BBEE codes drawing closer
With only a few weeks remaining until the deadline for effectiveness of the Department of Trade and Industry's (dti's) revised broad-based black economic-empowerment (B-BBEE) codes, many sector codes will still not meet the extended 30 April deadline in terms of the re-alignment process... read more>>
Government news
SABC: Axing of board members is 'unlawful'
NEWSWATCH: BD Live reports that one of the SABC directors axed this week says the action is 'unlawful, motivated by malice and constitutes a purge'... read more>>
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