2023 Labour Law Update
Presenters : Chantelle de Sousa
Overview
Recent decisions from the CCMA and Labour Courts offer some food for thought for legal practitioners, human resource and labour relations personnel. This webinar will get you up to speed with the latest interesting cases. When faced with fraud by an employee, often employers dismiss the employees and “let bygones be bygones”. However, Umgeni Water v Naidoo, demonstrates some of the redress available to employers to recoup losses and hold employees accountable.
In Ashton International v Erasmus, practitioners are reminded of the perils of “cut and paste” restraint of trade provisions and trying to enforce it in court. This reminder presents the perfect opportunity to clean up your contracts of employment and perfect your drafting skills.
Even though COVID may seem a distant memory, mandatory vaccination policies are still being decided at the CCMA and Labour Court. The webinar will give an overview of the decisions to date and how to prepare if your case has still to be decided. In a global workplace with shrinking borders, which court has territorial jurisdiction when an employee is working outside of South Africa? We will find the answer in Sorrel v Petroplan Sub-Sahara Africa.
Join Chantelle de Sousa where she will get you up to speed with the latest judgements and rulings in the Labour Court.
Learning objectives
By the end of this webinar the attendee should know:
- How to adequately advise employers on taking action against employees who have submitted false qualifications to obtain employment.
- Bring to attendees attention the danger of “copy and paste” in contracts of employment in particular restraint of trade provisions.
- Provide attendees with an overview of the latest Labour Court and CCMA decisions relating to mandatory vaccination policies.
- How to adequately advise employers and employees in enforcement of contracts when the employee works in another country.
Content
The webinar will cover the following topics:
- Attendees will understand how to take action against employees who have committeed fraud in relation to the qualificaitons.
- Attendees will be reminded to be careful in drafting contracts of employment especially restraint of trade provisions.
- Attendees will have a good understanding of Labour Court and CCMA decisions.
About the presenter:
Chantelle de Sousa Attorneys is a law firm dedicated to providing cost-effective and efficient all-round labour law services. Chantelle read for the BCom (Law and Economics) and LLB degrees at the North-West University (Potchefstroom) and the LLM (Human Rights, Conflict and Justice) at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Chantelle was admitted as an attorney of the High Court of South Africa in March 2011 Chantelle has worked in various areas of law including intellectual property and human rights in both Europe and the rest of the SADC region. She eventually settled in the field of labour law and has worked with employers, employees and trade unions in the South African labour space. She has an excellent network in the SADC region made up of lawyers, business and civil society. She is fluent in English, Afrikaans and Portuguese.
Who this is for?
- Legal practitioners.
- HR representatives.
- Industrial relations officers.
- Legal officers of companies.
- Employees.
- Workers' union officials.
- Paralegals.
- Law students
- Candidate attorneys.
- Anyone interested in employment and labour law.
Price:
R550 per person
Additional material
By attending this webinar you will be provided with:
- A summarised slide presentation.
- Reference documents and/or course material where available.