CEA NEWS
September 12
9th September 2018 LABOUR BRIEF NO. 411 Numerous “information” legislation, including Kind (3) and other Government guidelines, are very clear about the onus and obligations of Employers/Business to ensure that personal and personnel information is adequately protected and confidential. Of the most onerous of these is of course the (POPI) Act! This Act hold non-compliant…
July 27
Please click on the link below to view: CAPES Press Release – Con Court Judgement Assign 26 July 2018 Posted on behalf of Capes
July 18
9th July 2018 LABOUR BRIEF NO. 410 There is a steady increase in the diagnosis of mental illness in the workplace. Mental illness still carries a social stigma which may make sufferers reluctant to seek help. Unlike other illnesses mental illness may not manifest physically and is harder to detect. This often leads to the…
May 10
9th May 2018 LABOUR BRIEF NO. 409 Who is in control? When it comes to labour brokers, all has been said and done! Or has it? The proposed amendments are out since December 2010 and we are eagerly (depending on which side of the fence you are!) awaiting the implementation of these amendments or the…
April 10
09th April 2018 LABOUR BRIEF NO. 408 Employers are not always aware of what an employee is entitled to upon termination of service. Especially, when the relationship ends with debt owed to the employer. Can the employer for instance, deduct the debt from the employee’s salary, leave pay or pension benefits and if so, how…
April 10
Members are invited to attend the APSO conference taking place on 17 May 2018 at the Wanderers Club in Johannesburg. The CEA (LBD) members have been offered an Early Bird Special at the APSO member rate of R1950 plus VAT, if booked before the 16th April 2018, a second ticket will be issued free of…
March 20
09th March 2018 LABOUR BRIEF NO. 407 Can lapsed warnings be taken into account when an employee faces disciplinary action? Here is a typical scenario: An employee with a poor disciplinary record again transgresses, but the previous warnings for similar incidents have expired. May the employer consider the employee’s disciplinary history as a whole when…
February 10
09th February 2018 LABOUR BRIEF NO. 406 As a rule employers should give newly-appointed employees some time to settle in before deciding on their suitability for the job. But would it be fair to expect an employee appointed to a high level job to ‘hit the ground running’? The guidelines for dealing with probation (Item…
January 24
There is currently a lot of pressure on the recruitment industry, much of which is made up of SME players. The changes in legislation, exacerbated by the uncertainty with regards to the impact of the “deeming provision” within the LRAA (currently subject to legal reviews), has caused business and job losses. The rapidly changing World…
November 07
09th November 2017 LABOUR BRIEF NO. 405 Over the past few months, the taxation of foreign employment income earned by South African residents and the proposal by National Treasury (Treasury) to repeal the provision that exempted such income from the payment of tax, has drawn a lot of attention. Most recently, Treasury indicated that it…
