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Labour Law & Unions

LAC rules reinstatement is not always the remedy to unfair dismissal

Bradley Workman-Davies 6 Oct 2025

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Labour Law & Unions

Demanding remote workers to return to office? Why this direction must be reasonable

Amandla Makhongwana, Layla Shah and Thobeka Zondi 17 Jun 2025

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Labour Law & Unions

If time is money, can time-wasters be fired?

Wesley Field 18 Mar 2025

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Occupational Health & Safety

OHS isn't just physical: Why employee mental health is also your business

18 Dec 2024

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Labour Law & Unions

Can employees be fired for refusing to work overtime?

Jacques van Wyk and Michiel Heyns 7 Jul 2023

How any employee can become an intrapreneur

Management & Leadership

How any employee can become an intrapreneur

Issued by Gordon Institute of Business Science 14 Nov 2022

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Labour Law & Unions

Employee dismissed for wanting to wear heels... Now the shoe is on the other foot

Eugene Phajane, Mpumelelo Nxumalo, Kalene Watson, Kgololego Pooe & Masibulele Mabanga 11 Nov 2022

What happens when the bot does not report for duty?

HR Tools & Software

What happens when the bot does not report for duty?

Issued by SAICA 9 Nov 2021

Public Procurement Bill aims to simplify processes

Legislation & Regulation

Public Procurement Bill aims to simplify processes

Imraan Mahomed, Veronica Vurgarellis, Vaughn Harrison and Yuri Tangur 19 May 2020

Should reinstatement always be awarded after unfair dismissal?

Labour Law

Should reinstatement always be awarded after unfair dismissal?

Jacques van Wyk 14 Aug 2019

Can false allegations be grounds for dismissal?

Labour Law

Can false allegations be grounds for dismissal?

Jacques van Wyk 24 Jun 2019

Why 'forgetting' simple tasks may add up to gross insubordination

Labour Law

Why 'forgetting' simple tasks may add up to gross insubordination

Thabang Rapuleng and Tamsanqa Mila 30 May 2019

Taking the pressure out of depression

Labour Law

Taking the pressure out of depression

Motheo Mfikoe and Rui Lopes 26 Nov 2018

DAFF ignores science, wastes public funds in appealing High Court Rock Lobster ruling

Fishing

DAFF ignores science, wastes public funds in appealing High Court Rock Lobster ruling

Louzel Lombard Steyn 24 Oct 2018

Alarming rise of racial insults in the workplace

Labour Law

Alarming rise of racial insults in the workplace

Johnny Goldberg and Grant Wilkinson 12 Oct 2018

Can you dismiss an employee who refuses to obey instructions?

Labour Law

Can you dismiss an employee who refuses to obey instructions?

Jacques van Wyk 11 Sep 2018

#WomensMonth: The women who build our cars

Manufacturing & Parts

#WomensMonth: The women who build our cars

Evan-Lee Courie 29 Aug 2018

How just one derogatory word can get you fired...

Labour Law

How just one derogatory word can get you fired...

Jonathan Goldberg 4 Jun 2018

Labour Court upholds Shevel son's dismissal from Headache Clinic

Labour Law

Labour Court upholds Shevel son's dismissal from Headache Clinic

Naledi Shange 22 Dec 2017

Hawks head, police commissioner to be appointed soon

Law Practice

Hawks head, police commissioner to be appointed soon

9 Nov 2017

#LifeEsidimeni: How good people come to do very bad things

Mental health

#LifeEsidimeni: How good people come to do very bad things

Laura Lopez Gonzalez 20 Oct 2017

#LifeEsidimeni: Former Gauteng health MEC Mahlangu visited deadly Cullinan NGOs

Mental health

#LifeEsidimeni: Former Gauteng health MEC Mahlangu visited deadly Cullinan NGOs

Nelisiwe Msomi & Laura Lopez Gonzalez 17 Oct 2017

Dr Stephen Isabalija

Energy

Uganda: Why Museveni fired energy PS Isabalija after only 10 months

Alon Mwesigwa & Baker Batte Lule 5 Sep 2017

Pitfall in using arbitration in labour disputes

Labour Law

Pitfall in using arbitration in labour disputes

Jose Jorge and Steven Adams 15 Jun 2017

Côte d'Ivoire's new media bill criminalises press offences

Media

Côte d'Ivoire's new media bill criminalises press offences

16 May 2017

Contractual consistency is key in employee polygraph tests

Labour Law

Contractual consistency is key in employee polygraph tests

Jacques van Wyk 14 Dec 2015

Introduction of short time cannot be implemented unilaterally

Labour Law

Introduction of short time cannot be implemented unilaterally

Jacques V. Wyk, Andre V. Heerden, Brittany Feldman 7 Oct 2015

Night shift transport: employer or employee obligation?

Labour Law

Night shift transport: employer or employee obligation?

Hugo Pienaar 1 Jul 2015

Media Freedom

Space for independent, critical media is under siege

Anton Harber 7 Nov 2014

[21 Icons - Season 2] Pregs Govender

PR & Communications

[21 Icons - Season 2] Pregs Govender

20 Oct 2014

Disclosures on Facebook

Labour Law

Disclosures on Facebook

Jacques van Wyk and Andre van Heerden 25 Jun 2014

Recognising cultural beliefs in the workplace

Labour Law & Unions

Recognising cultural beliefs in the workplace

Jacques van Wyk, Andre van Heerden and Unesu Moyo 20 Feb 2014

Respect in the workplace

HR & Management

Respect in the workplace

Lavery Modise and Mathethebala Mochitele 20 Aug 2013

Gavin Stansfield

Labour Law

An employee's obligation to comply with a reasonable instruction

Gavin Stansfield 12 Jun 2013

Administration

NPA takes Breytenbach's ruling to court

29 May 2013

Administration

Eastern Cape suspension illegal: MEC

6 Sep 2012

Human resources is all about managing people

HR Management

Human resources is all about managing people

6 Jul 2012

Fired for Facebook comments

Online Media

Fired for Facebook comments

Candice McGregor 17 May 2012

Govt spokesman: new Manyi on the block

PR & Communications

Govt spokesman: new Manyi on the block

3 Feb 2011

Media freedom: newspapers step up rhetoric against state

Media Freedom

Media freedom: newspapers step up rhetoric against state

Issa Sikiti da Silva 6 Aug 2010

Newspapers

Rwanda shuts critical papers in run-up to presidential vote

14 Apr 2010

Newspapers

Daily News editor fired

5 Jan 2003