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Employees do not surrender their right to a private life when they enter into an employment relationship. As a general rule, what an employee does away from the workplace and outside working hours is not the employer’s concern. However, off-duty conduct may become an employment matter when it has a …

Every time international oil prices climb, South African employers feel the strain as domestic petrol and diesel prices follow suit. This filters through to transport, logistics, production and supplier costs, adding further inflationary pressure regardless of where consumer inflation itself happens to sit, Employers are then increasingly compelled to review …

The drafting of disciplinary charges is often treated as a highly technical exercise. Employers sometimes attempt to reproduce the language and structure of a criminal indictment, while employees may argue that any wording error in a charge automatically invalidates the disciplinary process. Neither approach accurately reflects South African labour law …

Behind South Africa’s remarkable growth in the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) sector, many employees are struggling. People are leaving their roles at increasing rates, exhaustion is becoming a real and persistent problem, and managers are often finding themselves stretched by fast-growing demands. The result is a direct hit to service …