Many employees approaching the “Big Sixty” will have no intention of giving up work any time soon and will be asking their employers if they can stay on. We have a warning – “age discrimination” is an “automatically unfair” form of dismissal which carries severe consequences for offenders.
Labour
The employer’s dismissal of an employee for “gross insubordination” and “incitement”, was overturned with a Labour Court order to retrospectively re-instate her. We discuss the reasons for that outcome and share some valuable lessons for all employers flowing from the judgment.
As pandemic restrictions ease around the world, many businesses forced by lockdown to “go remote” are torn between returning to…
We address seven important questions in this regard with reference to a recent Labour Court decision in which an employee, having resigned on the grounds of ill health, attempted to withdraw his resignation after undergoing a “miraculous” recovery.
The criterion that harassment involves unwanted conduct distinguishes acts of harassment from acceptable conduct in the workplace.
Employee looting and/or violence can take place during strike action or it can occur during non-workplace incidents such as the…