With the lockdown enforced upon employers, a rising concern was that employees making statements to one another about certain payments received or not. This raises the question; can an employee disclose to their fellow employees (or a trade union) what he/she had been paid? The answer is obvious – Yes. Section 78 of the Basic Conditions of Employment Act (BCEA) as amended, gives the following provisions: 78 (1) Every employee has the right to-Make a complaint to a trade union representative, a...

Shrinkage can be defined as the loss of inventory attributed to factors such as employee theft, shoplifting, administrative error, vendor fraud, damage, and cashier error. Employers, especially in the wholesale and retail sector, are often faced with the problem of stock shortages in the workplace. Still, they have no proof which of the employees are responsible or how to proceed with the matter. One of the first hearings I conducted years back at SEESA had to do with shrinkage/stock shortages...