What are the right of pregnant mothers in the workplace? How long before birth do you have to take leave and when do you have to return to work. What happens if you want to return to work earlier and is there any obligation on your employer to make your work conditions easier for you. [...]
Categories: Labour Law Issues
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Tags: dismissals, pregnancy, unfair labour practices
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As my Maggie-blog is a place for me to keep track of myself, I have almost forgotten to post a link to JD’s new blog post “Are there any limits to the Constitutional court`s jurisdiction in labour matters?“. At the moment I am trying to “tone him down” into the kind of legal language that [...]
Categories: Labour Law Issues, Uncategorized
| Tags: constitutional court, labour law
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I have posted JD’s new blogpost: Affirmative action appointments have to be defensible on his blog here. A brief intro…. Appointments and promotions supported by affirmative action considerations are, as a general principle not a contentious issue in the South African workplace nowadays. What is, however, contentious is whether such affirmative action appointments and promotions [...]
Categories: Labour Law Issues
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Employers often elect to enforce the provisions of a restraint of trade clause incorporated in contracts of employment of former employees who act in breach of such an agreement. A restraint of trade clause is in principle valid and the party seeking to avoid the restraint [the employee] bears the onus of proving that the [...]
Categories: Labour Law Issues
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