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Small To Meduim Enterprises Filing For Business Rescue
Dr. Eric Levenstein, Director and Head of our Insolvency & Business Rescue practice area, spoke to eNCA discussing the uptick in filings for business rescue by small to medium enterprises and the usage of business rescue as a restructuring tool for the realignment of capital resources in a distressed environment.
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The dismissal process
ISSUE When does a dismissal take place and what must be shown to prove that fact? COMMISSIONER'S DECISION [...]
QUO VADIS – business rescue or liquidation?
Going under business rescue is proving to be an increasingly attractive option for South African companies that are in financial [...]
The special voluntary disclosure programme: an update and some practicalities and predicaments
By: The Werksmans Tax Team The Special Voluntary Disclosure Programme (“SVDP”) kicked off on 1 October 2016 and runs until [...]
Certain provisions of the Environmental Conservation Act remain in force
The case of the Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs v Really Useful Investments (436/2015) [2016] ZASCA 156 is a [...]
Can a sanction of a final written warning be substituted with one dismissal appeal?
ISSUE Can an employer substitute the sanction of a final written warning with one of dismissal on appeal? [...]
Application of changes to the LRA to TES employees earning below the threshold
ISSUE Whether the employees’ fixed term contracts were cancelled to avoid the ‘deeming provisions’ of the Labour Relations Act [...]
