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Tackling B-BBEE issues in business
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With more than 20 years into a new democratic era, Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) has become a key part of government policy and doing business in South Africa.
However, legislation presents business with certain challenges. Pieter Steyn, head of our B-BBEE practice discusses the key issues affecting business in South Africa arising from B-BBEE compliance.
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Certain provisions of the Environmental Conservation Act remain in force
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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 [...]
Prescription of on-demand loans – the Constitutional Court’s decision in Trinity v Grindstone
INTRODUCTION Towards the end of 2016, we drew to your attention a decision of the Supreme Court of Appeal [...]
The bounds of the right to strike in support of organisational rights by way of Section 21 of the LRA
Section 21 of the Labour Relations Act 66 of 1995 states that any registered trade union may notify an employer [...]
Appointment of Information Regulator
INTRODUCTION On 7 September 2016, the National Assembly voted in favour of appointing the former IEC chairperson Advocate Pansy [...]
