The Latest Labour Court Rulings – Key Trends and Landmark labour law case studies

Labour law and your business – The latest decisions that can affect your labour practices.

Be part of the discussion on recent Constitutional, Labour Appeal, Labour Court and CCMA decisions that can benefit your business and help ensure that optimal policies, procedures and practices are put in place.

Unpacking the Latest Labour Court Rulings, including but not limited to, the latest on;

• Dismissal Rulings: Ensure Fair and Legal Dismissals
  • Extortion and gross misconduct
  • Refusal to take a Polygraph test
• Intoxication Policies: Marijuana and Alcohol – Know Your Rights and Limitations
  • Is a dismissal fair when testing positive?
• Employee Rights: Breathalyser Refusals – What Employers Need to Know

10h30: Mid-morning break

• Dispute Settlements and Restraints of Trade:
  • Can CCMA Agreements Nullify Restraint of Trade?
  • Restraints of trade and rulings on over-reach
• Strikes: Picketing Rules for Protected Strikes
  • Are picketing rules a necessity or not?
  • Cost orders for damage during a protected strike
  • Offensive placards and dismissal
• Retrenchments: Ensuring procedurally and substantively fair termination
  • Compensation for procedural unfairness
  • Applying the “Bumping” principle

13h00: lunch

• Hate Speech Act
  • Key elements and implications thereof
• Cannabis for Private Purpose Act
  • Awareness of key aspects
• Fixed-term contract: Avoiding unfair dismissal claims
  • Can you client determine the end of contract?
  • When is an expectation of renewal justified?
• Sick notes: Do you always have to accept them?
  • Fresh Court rulings
    • Registration of Traditional Healers

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