Tag: South African Breweries (SAB)

In a country facing a cost-of-living crisis and sluggish growth, certainty has become essential. Unemployment remains among the world’s highest, and families struggle to plan ahead. For businesses, investors and workers, knowing what tomorrow brings matters more than any single policy choice. Yet for more than a decade, South Africa’s alcohol excise system created the opposite outcome.

The issue is whether an employer may utilise Zoom when conducting consultations in a retrenchment exercise. If not, does the continuation of the consultations in such circumstances result in procedural unfairness? The Labour Relations Act 66 of 1995 (LRA) does not regulate how section 189 consultations are to be held (i.e. in person or via video conference).