The new sectoral targets published last week by the Department of Employment & Labour and the empowerment blueprint laid out by the Mineral & Petroleum Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe, have been welcomed by the Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) Chamber, but ... Read More

The labour movement, set to mark Workers’ Day on 1 May, is still relevant and has a role to play in dismantling SA’s entrenched socioeconomic crises, BusinessLIVE reports a poll of analysts and unionists has shown. Unions have been credited ... Read More

The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) and the Legal Practitioners Fidelity Fund (LPFF) have signed a MoU aimed at bolstering co-operation in investigating fraud, corruption and maladministration in the legal profession and related sectors. A Polity report notes the partnership is ... Read More

Transnet employees are considering a strike following the United National Transport Union (Untu) confirming that it has received the certificate of non-resolution from the CCMA. Untu had earlier declared a deadlock in talks for the 2025/2026 financial year, rejecting ... Read More

Employers should always intervene and taking appropriate action when grievances by employers are lodged, says Webber Wentzel’s Deon Visagie and Jamie Jacobs. In Makombe v Cape Conference of the Seventh Day Adventists & Others, the Cape Town Labour Court found ... Read More

The Minister of Employment & Labour recently published the ‘Determination of Sectoral Numerical Targets' (Final Sector Target Regulations) and the ‘Employment Equity Regulations, 2025' (General Administrative EE Regulations), which repeal the Employment Equity Regulations, 2014 (collectively, the 2025 EEA Regulations ... Read More

The proposed amendments to the Labour Relations Act (LRA) and Basic Conditions of Employment Act (BCEA), currently being finalised at Nedlac, are not neutral adjustments to outdated legislation. They are a direct and deliberate attack on the historical gains of ... Read More

The Trump administration’s cuts at the only federal agency dedicated to the science of workplace safety have put the US workforce in danger. Catherine Blackwood, a former scientist at the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) says that ... Read More

An employee living with long Covid was unfairly dismissed from a disability charity, HR Magazine reports a UK tribunal has heard. William Drysdale-Wood, who lives with the condition Crohn’s Disease, worked at the care support charity Shared Lives South West ... Read More

Reports to the UK's Information Commissioner’s Office showed that breaches of employee data jumped from 3 208 in 2023 to 3 679 in 2024, an analysis by law firm Nockolds, has shown, which is at the highest level since ... Read More

If employers want to retain their workforce and nurture top talent they need to cater to their desire to grow – from the moment they join, rather than it being an incentive for loyalty or a reward for achievements – ... Read More

* A Nelson Mandela Bay municipal official’s application for a protection order against his boss, acting executive director of electricity and energy Tholi Biyela, who allegedly threatened that ‘blood would be spilt’ during a meeting, has been postponed in the Gqeberha ... Read More

* The Departments of Labour and Home Affairs have raided businesses in Isithebe in KZN. The officials were checking for labour law compliance and undocumented foreign nationals at the industrial park. Read More

* The City of Tshwane's newly-approved HIV/Aids workplace counselling policy will boost the metro's effort to reduce new HIV infections among employees. Member of the mayoral committee for corporate and shared services Kholofelo Morodi said the policy was ... Read More

Financial Services Tribunal: Coert Knoetze v Financial Sector Conduct Authority Judgment: 10 April 2025 Keywords: Reconsideration application – exemption from fit and proper requirements – applicability of s 44 of the FAIS Act – presumption of innocence post-conviction but pending ... Read More

EFFECTIVE WORKPLACE SOLUTIONS: EMPLOYMENT LAW FROM A BUSINESS PERSPECTIVE - VOLUME 1 U Stander and B Jordaan | Print ISBN: 9781485160335; eBook ISBN: 9781485160342 Effective Workplace Solutions – Employment Law from a Business Perspective (Volume 1) is a practical, user-friendly guide to ... Read More