Specialisations

Apart from general labour law work, our professional services include :
  • 2012 Amendments to the Labour Relations Act and BCEA
Guiding and consulting to employers in detail on wide range of implications of these changes.
Conducting compliance reviews in this regard.
Drafting appropriate changes to all impacted employment and workplace policies, contracts and agreements based on these changes.
  • Section 197 and business sales, transfers, mergers and acquisitions
Labour and employment contract transfers in mergers, acquisitions, sales, outsourcing, and insourcing transactions and processes. Application of section 197 of the 1995 Labour Relations Act in these areas and related employment law and equalisation issues arising.  
Business development work impacted by section 197 of the Labour Relations Act. Labour issues in termination of outsourcing agreements, insourcing and/or establishing of outsourcing agreements, tender terms / contract terms designed relating to employment transfer, labour planning en employment terms equalisation in these areas. Due diligence working relating to this field
  • Intellectual Property in Employment
Identifying respective intellectual property assets of employer and employee/s, and resolving issues and disputes in this regard. Guiding companies on intellectual property assets and safeguarding of these in employment context. Guiding employers on intellectual property asset registers and records, and updating of these contractually and otherwise during employment relationship. Related safeguarding of these assets upon termination of employment of other contracts. 
Drafting employer and company policies on all aspects of intellectual property and protection thereof, pertaining to employment and all other personal service based relationships and all related protections, undertakings, restraints, registers, schedules and the like. Drafting and negotiating special agreements between employers and employees and other providers of personal services relating to the above risks and asset protection requirements
  • International Employment contracts

  • Developing employment policies, contract terms and other requirements relating to persons working abroad, in SADEC or elsewhere worldwide, particularly for local employers operating internationally or foreign employers investing in, or setting up in South Africa or SADEC
    • Corporates and employers receiving services of their employees from home
    The recent 2012 extreme hikes in the petrol price cannot be matched by salary increases to employees to cover their work commuting costs. A trickle of such arrangements in earlier years has now become a torrent – with employees working full time and officially for their corporate and other employers from home, off site, without any office. This is achieved through numerous innovative money and overhead saving arrangements supported by new technologies.
    Employees working from their homes for companies while in their full time corporate employment is now standard practice worldwide. We continue to advise numerous employers on innovative employment law and labour relations solutions in this regard, resulting in huge cost savings, innovative contract terms, and refreshing new work cultures
    • Termination negotiations and employment contract conclusions
    • This is specialised work normally directed at senior executive terminations and involve all related planning and agreements concluded