It would be safe to say that the national government has a role to play in job creation by creating an environment conducive for the business community to create jobs. The ANC-led government, unfortunately, has not created an environment conducive to job creation and the new government is going to have a long road to […]

The law defines what constitutes unfair discrimination in differentiating between the terms and conditions of employment of employees The amended section to 6(4) of the Employment Equity Act provides that it is unfair discrimination for an employer to differentiate between the terms and conditions of employment of its employees if these differences are based on […]

The director-general of the Department of Labour and Employment, Thobile Lamati, has resigned. His resignation follows reports of backing a controversial project to channel billions from the Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) into a private investment company, as part of a job creation scheme. Lamati conveyed the news to his top management in a WhatsApp message […]

The Basic Conditions of Employment Act (BCEA) recognises that employees are entitled to sick leave and that producing a medical certificate is justification for a period of absence in certain circumstances. But a medical certificate produced by an employee to justify a period of absence constitutes hearsay evidence, which employers are entitled to challenge. That […]