Businesses registered with the Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) that are suffering financial distress as a direct result of the Covid-19 pandemic qualify to receive financial relief from the Temporary Employee / Employer Relief Scheme...
By Graeme Palmer 1 day ago
Businesses registered with the Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) that are suffering financial distress as a direct result of the Covid-19 pandemic qualify to receive financial relief from the Temporary Employee / Employer Relief Scheme...
Employment and Labour Minister Thulas Nxesi has assured Parliament that the department is conducting the requisite due diligence as it disburses Covid-19 TERS Benefits to avoid processing fraudulent claims.
22 May 2020
On Friday, 8 May 2020, the Labour Court upheld an urgent application by Numsa and the SA Cabin Crew Association (the Unions) against South African Airways (SAA) and its business rescue practitioners (BRPs) and ordered that it was procedurally unfair to retrench employees before a business rescue plan contemplating such retrenchments was published and adopted...
Wessel Badenhorst and Chris Rey 11 May 2020
As part of the second phase economic response to the Covid-19 pandemic, National Treasury has published another draft bill to formalise the tax relief measures available to small businesses. The draft legislation aims to clarify several matters which were previously the subject of uncertainty and introduces additional tax measures...
Juanita van der Merwe 8 May 2020
South Africa was put under strict social and economic lockdown on 26 March. By the end of April the government announced that it was easing some of the restrictions. This included allowing certain key sectors to begin operations once again. One of them was mining...
Nancy Coulson & Nicola Christofides 7 May 2020
The Labour Court has ordered employers in the mining industry to prepare and implement a code of practice for health and safety standards...
4 May 2020
Acting Communications and Digital Technologies Minister, Jackson Mthembu, has signed and gazetted directions on the Risk-Adjusted Strategy for the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector...
4 May 2020
Government's implementation of a risk-adjusted strategy in easing the nationwide lockdown entails the use of a system of alert levels applicable nationally and provincially. The alert levels are as follows:
Kate Collier, Dhevarsha Ramjettan, Kirsten Eiser, Shane Johnson, Bianca Viljoen, and Zipho Tile 30 Apr 2020
How do we calculate the benefits payable to employers, on behalf of their employees, in terms of the Covid-19 TERS...?
Andre van Heerden, Jacques van Wyk, and Bradley Workman-Davies 30 Apr 2020
The Department of Employment and Labour late last week announced an amendment to the Temporary Employee Relief Scheme (TERS) will be of great importance to any employer which has required employees to take compulsory annual leave during the national lockdown...
Bradley Workman-Davies & Jacques van Wyk 20 Apr 2020
With the Covid-19 lockdown in full effect until the end of April, and the potential for yet another extension still looming, South Africa's mines have scaled down operations massively...
Lizle Louw, Nirvasha Singh, Garyn Rapson, Kate Collier, Merlita Kennedy & Rita Spalding 15 Apr 2020
Regulations giving effect to the government's commitment to assist ailing industries and workers through the Unemployment Insurance Fund are being gazetted...
Tania Broughton 8 Apr 2020
With the implementation of the national lockdown by President Cyril Ramaphosa on 26 March, there has been understandable confusion...
Shane Johnson and Samantha Robb 8 Apr 2020
In true South African spirit, even in times of adversity, daily stories of generosity and ingenuity abound. Never have we been more proud of how business communities are using our publishing platforms than since the outbreak of the Covid-19 coronavirus...
Bizcommunity.com 6 Apr 2020
The courts and the legal system are an essential service, and are continuing to operate during the lockdown...
Alison Tilley 2 Apr 2020
Addressing reporters during a social cluster press briefing on Tuesday, 31 March, the minister revealed that some employers were still not adhering to the relevant laws...
1 Apr 2020
People performing essential services must carry permit according to the regulations governing South Africa's Covid-19 lockdown...
27 Mar 2020
As a consequence of the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, there are a number of labour law considerations that South African businesses will have to consider...
Kayla Shadiack 25 Mar 2020
In the wake of the announcement of the national shutdown, the Minister of Employment and Labour has announced the introduction of measures in response to coronavirus (Covid-19) and its impact on UIF contributors...
Jean Ewang 25 Mar 2020
The Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) Commission has welcomed a court decision to dismiss an application that would see it not performing its functions...
24 Mar 2020
Johan Botes, partner and head of the Employment & Compensation Practice at Baker McKenzie Johannesburg, addresses a series of questions many South African employees and employers are asking amid the the coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak...
Johan Botes 19 Mar 2020
Employers have a duty and responsibility to prevent occupational diseases and injuries relating to exposure to ergonomic hazards in their workplaces...
11 Mar 2020
Having recently slipped into a technical recession, the South African economy continues to experience dangerously low levels of economic growth, which does not bode well for national employment figures...
10 Mar 2020
Following confirmation of SA's first case of the coronavirus (Covid-19), there is a strong likelihood that there will be other cases of Covid-19 across the country. Naturally, employers will need to bear in mind various employment and health and safety considerations to manage the risk of Covid-19 in the workplace...
Johan Olivier, Kate Collier, Lizle Louw, and Shane Johnson 9 Mar 2020
An employee is entitled, at any time in an employment relationship, to resign and walk away from his employer...
Bradley Workman-Davies 6 Mar 2020
The Labour Court has ruled that the 24-hour shift agreement and standby allowance afforded to Cape Town firefighters is valid and binding until such time as a new collective agreement has been concluded by all parties involved...
4 Mar 2020
Employment and Labour Minister Thulas Nxesi will on Thursday launch a new hotline that will allow workers to report cases of non-compliance with the National Minimum Wage (NMW), at no cost to them...
2 Mar 2020
Small informal retailers are a ubiquitous feature of any developing country's urban landscape. Known as spaza shops in SA, they are an important component in the townships...
Andries du Toit 26 Feb 2020
A Spar franchisee has been ordered to pay millions of rands to workers for unlawful deductions on earnings, as well as non-compliance with the National Minimum Wage (NMW), said the Department of Employment and Labour...
25 Feb 2020
The Department of Employment and Labour says the new rate for the National Minimum Wage (NMW) for each ordinary hour worked will now be R20.76...
24 Feb 2020
