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Fixed term employment and procedural fairness in large scale retrenchments
ISSUE(S) Whether the employees' fixed term contracts had terminated by operation of law having regard to section 196B of [...]
Legislative update
DRAFT CODE OF GOOD PRACTICE ON EQUAL PAY FOR WORK OF EQUAL VALUE The Minister of Labour published the [...]
Top ten risks for creditors of companies going into Business Rescue in 2017
Continued pressure on business and world economies appears to continue into 2017. In South Africa, 2016 has seen several companies [...]
Further update on the Special Voluntary Disclosure Programme in respect of offshore assets and income
INTRODUCTION In terms of the Explanatory Memorandum on the Special Voluntary Programme ("SVDP"), the SVDP will be deemed to [...]
Truworths vs Ackermans: the importance of carefully selecting a trade mark
Ackermans has recently been successful in a precedent setting trade mark dispute against Truworths which was heard by the Supreme [...]
Environmental legal compliance evaluations, an indispensable risk management tool
The awareness of environmental harms being inflicted by industry is continually growing due, firstly, to the ever increasing visual presence [...]
