Category: HR & IR

Since my last update, various major shifts have occurred in the manner in which business operate. The far-reaching implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic is now more widely understood and the impact on both the local and global economies have been devastating. With government again extending the National State of Disaster in anticipation of a so-called…

It’s been a full two weeks since my last update, and again it is a case of a lot of things happening very fast. As government has been preparing for the Risk Adjusted Approach to restarting the economy, various new changes have taken place which we will assess herein: DMA Regulations – Alert Level 4…

It has been another busy day with Cabinet briefing the public on the newly gazetted amendments to the COVID-19 Lockdown Regulations (Which you can download here), as well as the UIF-TERS online portal finally going live. Amended Regulations I have again provided a combined version of the Lockdown Regulations which includes the latest amendments (Download…

After lengthy engagements between stakeholders and the Department of Employment and Labour (DEL), various changes have been affected as relates to the application for UIF-TERS benefits, including the correction of several issues in the Draft Memorandum of Undertaking (MOA).

Good Evening. It is now day 13 of the Lockdown and the Department of Employment and Labour have finally published the updates to the Directive relating to the COVID-19 Temporary Employee / Employer Relief Scheme. We have already compiled a useful combined version which incorporates the latest amendments along with a handy reference to the…

We are now fully in the swing of things and government has issued some additional revisions along with some relaxations to the existing regulations. As there are now fully four (4) separate documents that make up the DMA Regulations for the Lockdown, I have combined all of the amendments into a simpler and easier to…

As Government has now had some time to refine and optimize its responses to the COVID-19 Disaster, some minor updates are in order following our earlier communications in this regard. Yesterday, the Democratic Alliance hosted a special Labour Law Edition of their successful Coronacast series which can be viewed on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQRfY2PxdLg and is most illustrative.…

On this first day of the National Lockdown, further information has become known, however to simplify the understanding for our clients, I will be revisiting some of the earlier statments which I have made to date: Temporary Lay-Offs, Unpaid Leave or Paid Leave during the Lockdown: While responses from government in this regard has been…

The Speech by Minister of Trade and Industry, Mr Ebrahim Patel, includes a very important statement as relates to the Application that Business should make to be declared an Essential Service. It is noted that Businesses Must apply to be declared an Essential Service via a portal created for this person and available at http://www.bizportal.gov.za/…

This week and to a greater extent Today has been filled with uncertainty and a myriad of questions that none of us ever needed to answer before the President’s Speech. Chief among them were questions relating to whether or not your businesses would be deemed to be essential services. I have finally, received a copy…