What Happens When Your Employee’s Driver’s Licence Expires?
If your employee or employees require their driver’s licence to perform their job, and their licence expires without timeous renewal, the employee is driving without a valid driver’s licence. Does your employment contract make provision for this eventuality and the responsibility of the employee to ensure that their driver’s licence is renewed timeously? If not, contact your SEESA labour advisor, and we will assist with the relevant employment contract provisions and or disciplinary process....
Episode 43. A Trade Union’s Constitution And Their Scope Of Operations
In today's podcast, SEESA Labour Law experts, Ryan King and Johan du Plessis discuss the recent constitutional court's ruling on whether or not a trade union can ignore their defined scope of eligibility of their members set out in its own constitution and demand organisational rights from employers whose industries falls outside of the union's constitution. Click play to listen to our podcast! Contact your SEESA Legal Advisor to assist you with any labour related queries. #TeamSEESA...
Determining Your B-BBEE Level For EME And QSE Entities In The Construction Sector
The Amended Construction Sector Codes applies to businesses who derive more than 50% of their annual revenue from Construction-related activities and include the following: Contractors – conduct construction project activities including Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, power transmission, general building, specialist construction works e.g. wiring, air-conditioning, heating, asphalt work, excavations, scaffolding, and support, shop-fitting, structural steelwork, water-proofing, etc....
The Right To Equality
A consumer has certain fundamental rights which are given in terms of the Consumer Protection Act. There are a few of them, but it could be argued that the most important one in our day and age would be the right to equality. Section 8 of the Consumer Protection Act states that a supplier should not: unfairly exclude a consumer from accessing certain goods or services;grant certain consumers exclusive use or supply a different quality or price to certain consumers; or treat a consumer...
Episode 42. How To Compile Your Employment Equity Committee To Comply With The Department Of Labour
SEESA Skills Training Facilitators, Taryn Leask and Damien Doravaloo discuss the common misconceptions regarding the criteria for your Employment Equity Committee, and how to ensure that this process can be managed easily for your business to comply with the Department of Labour. They also touch on the requirements one should discuss during these committee meetings and the number of meetings that need to take place during that reporting year. Click play to listen! Interested in having your own...
Are Employees Entitled To An Annual Increase?
With the financial difficulties that most companies are currently experiencing and with the end of the year approaching, the question on everyone’s minds is “Do I have to give my staff an increase this year?”. Salary increases are not regulated by Labour legislation, but whether an employee is entitled to an annual increase is determined by various factors. Collective agreement/Sectoral determination: If your company falls within the jurisdiction of a bargaining council/sectoral determination,...
Did You Know? -There Is A Statutory Warranty Of 3 Months On All Repair Work Done.
“If a supplier repairs any particular goods or any component of any such goods, and within three months after the repair, the failure, defect or unsafe feature has not been remedied, or a further failure, defect or unsafe feature is discovered, the supplier must: - (a) replace the goods; or (b) refund to the consumer the price paid by the consumer for the goods.” To find out how SEESA can help your business visit our website for more: http://www.seesa.co.za/ "SMS" the word "SEESA" to 45776...
FAQ – What Are The Consequences of Non-Compliance In Terms Of A COVID-19 Risk Assessment?
A risk assessment is a legal requirement as per the Occupational Health and Safety Act, 85 of 1993 with which helps business to identify, evaluate and control the health risks associated with COVID-19 in the workplace in a structured way. The consequences of not having a risk assessment in place are as follows: • Business will not be complying with OHS Act, Disaster Management Act and OHS directives from the Department of Employment and Labour. • The risk associated with COVID 19 at the...
Did You Know – Is Loss Of Taste Or Smell Included In Your COVID-19 Screening Register
Are you compliant with the new COVID-19 OHS Screening Requirements? According to the Guidelines for symptom monitoring and management of workers for SARS-CoV-2 infection (version 5: 19 August 2020)–the loss of taste or the loss of smell must also now be included as a key symptom on the screening questionnaire. SEESA Clients can now access the updated screening register in the complete COVID-19 OHS Guide on ProFile's dashboard. Visit profile.seesa.co.za to access the guide today! "SMS" the word...
Procedural Fairness Regarding Simultaneous Attendance Of Accused Employees At A Collective Disciplinary Hearing
Collective disciplinary hearings are conducted when employees act collectively and are therefore collectively associated and charged with misconduct. Conducting various individual hearings is challenging and a collective hearing is a practical solution, however, it poses certain procedural uncertainties. Particularly whether collectively accused employees should remain in each other’s, as well as witnesses’, presence throughout the hearing or whether the employees can be separated at times,...