With escalating incidents of xenophobia and the possibility of foreign workers becoming a central issue in the local elections later this year, government has gazetted an intention to accelerate legislation to protect jobs for SA citizens, writes Legalbrief. Employment & ... Read More

The SCA has ruled retirement funds cannot use a strict 12-month timeline from a member’s date of death to deny claims or redirect death benefits into a deceased estate. It made this ruling as it dismissed an appeal by the ... Read More

The Constitutional Court has dismissed an interdict application by the National Employers’ Association of SA (Neasa) and Sakeliga, in a final blow to attempts to urgently stop the implementation of new employment equity targets. ‘In the absence of any court ... Read More

The United National Transport Union (Untu), the Passenger Rail Agency of SA's (Prasa) largest union, has provisionally withdrawn from the Labour Court roll its application to halt the retrenchment process at the rail operator, reports TimesLIVE. The union had ... Read More

SA labour law is often discussed through the lens of employee protection. That is unsurprising. The Labour Relations Act, the Basic Conditions of Employment Act, and the raft of constitutional rights underpinning workplace regulation were all designed to address historical ... Read More

This is the era of the working poor. Workers wake up at 4am. They travel long distances. They work exhausting shifts. They build this economy with their labour. Yet at the end of the month they cannot afford food. This ... Read More

Workers urgently need more bargaining power over the way AI is adopted in the workplace to ensure the benefits are fairly shared. The Guardian reports that this is according to a TUC-backed study from a leading thinktank, the Institute for ... Read More

Michelin and Renault are planning additional cost cuts in France just days after President Emmanuel Macron touted the country’s capacity to win new auto-industry investments. Michelin is considering eliminating 1 500 positions in France over three years, or 9% of ... Read More

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has awarded damages to three Polish judges who were denied promotion by the country’s President nearly two decades ago. The judges’ rights were violated because no reasons were given for blocking the appointments ... Read More

* New data shows that people working for companies in Gauteng get paid up to 25% more than in any other province for the same job. This was highlighted in Pnet’s latest Job Market Trends Report, which showed that SA’s job ... Read More

* Three construction workers have been rushed to hospitals with serious injuries after a wall collapsed on them at a property on Marists Road in Berea, Durban, on 28 May. According to ALS Paramedics spokesperson Garrith Jamieson, initial reports indicated that ... Read More

* Stats SA has revised its liquidations data, revealing that business closures are escalating in the country at an alarming pace. The latest data on liquidations shows that 233 companies were shuttered in April 2026, down from 276 liquidations recorded in ... Read More

SCA SA Retirement Annuity Fund v Pension Funds Adjudicator and Another Judgment: May 2026 Keywords: Pension law – Widow unaware of benefit and applied late – Estate too small to be reported to Master – Interpretation of s 37C (1 ... Read More

Labour Court (Cape Town) Abrahams v National Student Financial Aid Scheme Judgment: 26 May 2026 Keywords: Labour law – Automatically unfair dismissal – Protected disclosures – Employer's knowledge of disclosure not determinative – Misconduct charge as pretext for retaliation ... Read More