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SAFM Market Update: Cross Trainer Enters Business Rescue
Dr. Eric Levenstein, Director and Head of our Insolvency & Business Rescue practice area, had a discussion with Jimmy Moyaha of SAFM about the markets reaction to Cross Trainer going under business rescue and the current status of the business rescue mechanism in South Africa.
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Strike action in circumstances where there has been a long delay between the issuing of a certificate of outcome and the subsequent election to embark on a strike
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Is length of service reason to pay different salaries to employees performing the same functions?
Pioneer Foods (Pty) Ltd v Workers Against Regression (WAR) & others ISSUE Whether length of service is a [...]
Is a trade union entitled to organisational rights in terms of the LRA after acquiring majority representation at a single branch?
Professional Transport and Allied Workers Union obo members / Professional Aviation Services [2016] 4 BALR 421 ISSUE Whether a [...]
Asset for share transactions – beware of selling your shares within 18 months especially in the context of a share buy-back
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A new era dawns – criminalisation of cartel conduct
On 22 April 2016, a Presidential Proclamation (“Proclamation”) appeared in the Government Gazette which confirmed that the provisions contained in [...]
The employer’s responsibility during the transfer of an employee
Senne and others v Fleet Africa [2016] ZALCJHB 48 ISSUE One of the automatic consequences of a transfer in [...]
