CAN AN EMPLOYER SUBSTITUTE A CHAIRPERSON’S RULING?
CAN AN EMPLOYER SUBSTITUTE A CHAIRPERSON’S RULING? Introduction The perennial debate as to whether an employer is entitled to disregard the outcome of its own internal disciplinary process and substitute it with its own decision has once again occupied the courts in the Republic of South Africa. The recent decision in Nkuna v […]
Medical Certificates Are Not a Licence To Avoid Hearings
Medical Certificates Are Not a License To Avoid Hearings Date published: 13-07-2026 The recent spectacle of witnesses before the Madlanga Commission of Enquiry in South Africa repeatedly producing medical certificates to avoid giving evidence before the Commission has highlighted a problem that employers in Eswatini have faced for many years. Justice Madlanga’s observation that […]
Talent Management
TALENT MANAGEMENT Date published: 12-12-2024 Workplace redeployment often attracts a negative stigma despite its ability to reinvigorate and reduce costs related to any employers’ staff complement. It is an option available to both the employer and the employee where the inability to meet a particular role is identified. The reasons for this are plentiful but […]