Category: Newsletter

As we move into the new financial year, we see many of the commissions of enquiry set up by governments coming into their own.  The various commissions are digging up more and more dirt against senior management of all the…

As we enter 2019, we are already finding many retrenchments as the economy had a very slow start. The implementation of the National Minimum Wage Act is going to hit many businesses hard and businesses need to understand that if…

First and foremost, I wish everyone well over the festive season.  If anyone is going to be travelling please be alert, sober and cautious.  If you are working over this period, I trust that the trading will be plentiful and…

Welcome back to the world of work.  Hopefully everyone had some rest and recreation and returns back to work refreshed, full of vigour and great health.  Unfortunately, it looks loke we are going into another year of many retrenchments and…

A lot has transpired in the labour front over the past month.  As everyone is aware, the expert working group on the national minimum wage has made a proposal of three thousand five hundred rand per month as a minimum…

It needs to be said that South Africa currently is in an industrial relations nightmare. The Department of Labour appears to have lost the plot!  The spending is skewed in that a massive amount has been set aside to investigate…

This is just a short newsletter, firstly and primarily wishing everyone a healthy, safe and peaceful time over the festive period.  We wish everyone a fantastic New Year and great strength to their businesses during 2014. 2013 has been a…

You will recall that during the strike season of July 2010 we sent out a newsletter advising our clients that becauseof the substantially higher settlements that were given out by government during the wage negotiationsthis would cause expectations and problems…