Employment disputes quickly become expensive, are long-drawn and have the ability to cause reputational risk to both disputing parties. More often than not, even settlement agreements intended to ...

Unauthorised salary deductions are a common source of conflict in South African workplaces. This guide explains when your ...

A new law aimed at increasing the employment of black people in South Africa has enraged some businesses and the opposition Democratic Alliance (DA), who say qualified workers could lose their jobs.

South Africa has stepped up labour inspections targeting Chinese- and Pakistani-owned businesses as part of a broader government effort to enforce workplace regulations, curb the exploitation of ...

Carin Runciman is a member of the Casual Workers Advice Office's management committee. The biggest changes to South Africa’s labour laws since 1995, shortly after the country’s first democratic ...

The poor working conditions and wages in South African agriculture suggests that legal mechanisms to protect workers' rights will remain largely ineffective if workers are not, at the same time, in a ...

Deputy Minister of Employment and Labour Jomo Sibiya says South Africa needs to take a far more aggressive stance against companies that repeatedly break labour laws. Speaking during an inspection ...