According to Johan Botes, director in the employment practice at Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr business law firm, an employer
may be able to fire an employee who has slagged off the company, or an individual or two, on some social media platform. However, employers might be on shaky ground if they demand from an employee, or an applicant for employment, their personal, private usernames and passwords.
So, employers need to be aware that
legislation protects employees against social media prying, and issues in that area need to be handled with great care.
Back in 2010, the DA awarded a tender to advertising agency TBWA/Hunt Lascaris to centralise communications. Questions were raised about the deal, and now Theunis Botha, leader of the Christian Democratic party, says
Western Cape premier Helen Zille must resign after the Public Protector Thuli Madonsela found the tender award to be provisionally invalid.
In a boost for manufacturing, Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies will today be launching a
R5.8bn manufacturing competitiveness enhancement program (MCEP). The program is aimed at addressing the South African manufacturing industry's ability to compete against imports and against its competitors for other export markets.
Here are two trick questions for you: What have the BRICS members got in common? Answer: coastlines. Which is the odd man out? Answer: us - because we're the only member of BRICS that does
not have a merchant fleet.
In fact, we don't even have a single ship... not one... to carry our imports and exports - and it's
costing this country billions every year to use foreign-owned ships to carry goods to and from SA.
Henrie Geyser, our Obelix in the driver's seat, unleashes his inner Frenchman and waxes romantic over
the new Citroën DS5, which he reckons might have a little German influence and is the kind of car that demands a second look. And a third.
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Mining consultancy group, Managing Transformation Solutions (MTS) has launched a training division designed to impart skills and help South African companies deliver sustainable and tangible transformation. 
South African employees can take comfort in protection offered by our labour legislation should their employers ask them for their social media user names and profiles as has been happening in the United States. 
Recently appointed managing director of Kelly, Graham Bentley is not a new face on the business scene. As the co-founder of IT recruitment firm, Paracon, Bentley has made his mark on the South African corporate landscape. Now, Bentley is once again being charged with what he does best - making recruitment profitable and growing the bottom line. 
While Sanral CEO Nazir Alli seems to have bowed under pressure from the Gauteng e-tolling crisis, his political leaders seem to shy away from all responsibility in the resultant chaos. 
The Board of the South African National Road Agency SOC Limited (SANRAL) on Wednesday announced the appointment of Koos Smit as Acting Chief Executive of the agency. This follows the resignation yesterday of the agency's CEO, Nazir Alli. 
State-owned transport logistics company Transnet told parliament yesterday that its R300bn infrastructure programme would create more than 588 000 direct and indirect jobs. 
Economist Mike Schussler says if thousands of people who lack skills receive smaller pay rises at the entry level, SA could slash its 'embarrassing' unemployment rate. 
