LABOUR LAW UPDATE: MARCH 2017

The Department of Labour which is supposed to play a significant role in reducing unemployment, poverty and inequality through pursuing the objectives of full and productive employment and decent work for all seems to be failing. The UIF has indeed increased some of...

LABOUR UPDATE: FEBRUARY 2017

It has been a slow start to 2017 in the industrial relations sense. Thankfully, this has meant that we have had few strikes and no major retrenchments. On the legislative side, there is pending legislation with changes to the UIF, maternity leave and possible strike...