Over recent years technology has become part and partial of the way we do business. It revolutionised the way we communicate and the way we practise law. However, the process of adopting virtual proceedings in litigation and specifically labour proceedings was fast-tracked by the COVID-19 pandemic. Courts serve mainly two functions in society, namely resolve disputes and deliver justice to individuals[1]. A virtual courtroom is a conceptual idea of a judicial forum that has no physical...

Benjamin Franklin once said, “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail”, and that is exactly the kind of mindset an employer must have when it comes to industrial action. During October 2021, there was both an industry-wide strike as well as a nationwide strike. The former being organised by the trade union NUMSA and the latter by the by trade union federation COSATU. These ongoing strikes and protests have an enormous impact on the economic well-being of not only our economy as a...

Since the pandemic's start, there have been various amendments regarding the National State of Disaster and its regulations regarding the different lockdown levels. In brief, with the level 5 lockdown, the hard lockdown, employers utilised employees annual leave to this period to pay them their full salary and subsequently claimed this amount back from TERS. Many employers have further been obtaining assistance from the TERS scheme throughout the pandemic. The question that now arises, as the...