Tag: Labour Appeal Court
Dismissal emanating from wearing high-heeled shoes
The Labour Appeal Court recently issued an order refusing to grant leave to appeal against the judgment of the Labour Court, after the Labour Court reinstated an employee who was dismissed for voicing her dissatisfaction with the company’s policy on wearing high-heeled shoes on mine premises.
Constitutional court upholds secondary strikes judgments
On 12 November 2021, the Constitutional Court held in favour of mining employers in a historic secondary strike judgment (Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union and Others v Anglo Gold Ashanti Limited t/a Anglo Gold Ashanti and Others [2021] ZACC 42).
Derivative misconduct in the workplace
All employers, employees and trade unions will need to be aware of the Constitutional Court's recent Dunlop decision which has clarified much of the uncertainty around how derivative misconduct is applied in the workplace.
JUDGEMENT | Labour brokers – at last some certainty
Employees, earning below the prescribed earnings threshold of R205,433.30 per annum, who are placed with a client by a temporary employment service (TES) for a period exceeding three months are solely employed by the client, and the TES is no longer the employer of that employee.
Traditional healer (Sangoma) medical certificates
Lianne Freedman | CEO | EconoServ | lianne@econobee.co.za | www.econoserv.co.za |
The issue of medical certificates that come from traditional healers is a sensitive issue that needs...
