Kirsten Caddy
Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr
Articles
The devil is in the detail: National Minimum Wage
South Africa - February 13 2017 Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa last week announced that representatives of government, business, the community sector and two of the three labour...
Who decides whether an employer has put up security “to the satisfaction of the Court”?
South Africa - October 24 2016 In Moqhaka Local Municipality v Motloung and others (JS 150516, 14 October 2016) the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA)...
Large scale retrenchments: different routes for different challenges
South Africa - July 18 2016 Section 189A of the Labour Relations Act, No 66 of 1995 (LRA) enumerates the rules applicable in large scale retrenchments. Employees who are...
Can employers retrench based on poor performance?
South Africa - May 23 2016 A question that comes up regularly is whether employers can retrench employees who are poor performers. Although this question has been previously...
The substitution of employers in a s197 transfer is automatic but not necessarily immediate
South Africa - March 30 2016 In Senne and others v Fleet Africa 2016 ZALCJHB 48 the Labour Court was required to determine the date on which the old employer was substituted by...
