This article was written by Jonathan Jones, an associate at Norton Rose Fulbright South Africa
The Basic Conditions of Employment Act (BCEA) stipulates that an employer must provide new employees with written particulars of employment. The Electronic Communications and Transactions Act, on the other hand, recognises that data communications, such as email or
In a decision which considered agreement making for “start ups”, the Fair Work Commission has held that there was nothing unusual or untoward in a relatively new business making an enterprise agreement early in its life with a small number of employees with an expectation that the business will grow and eventually employ a much
Following on from a recent decision in which a ‘no extra claims’ clause in an enterprise agreement prohibited an employer unilaterally varying employment benefits, a Full Bench of the Fair Work Commission has recently affirmed this approach to interpreting the scope of no extra claims clauses in relation to employment conditions (DL Employment Pty
If traditional accident causation theory was truly sufficient for preventing incidents, wouldn’t we have learnt the lessons by now?
When we look at incident investigation reports, we see the same lessons being learnt time and time again. Those who investigate incidents will no doubt be familiar with the drawbacks associated with traditional investigation techniques.
With
On November 17, 2014, the President of the Republic issued Decree Nº 1.431 (the Decree), through which he increased the minimum salary for public and private sector workers by 15%. Such became effective on December 1, 2014.
The Decree fixed the following scales for workers’ minimum salaries, with effect on December 1, 2014,
This article was written by Amelia Berman, an associate at Norton Rose Fulbright South Africa
It is very common in this day and age for employers to have regard to prospective employees’ Facebook pages and Twitter accounts before employing them or for employers to inspect these social media platforms to verify the veracity of sick
The legal background
Under French employment law, the provision of a probationary period in an employment contract entitles the employer to terminate the contract without being required to follow a dismissal procedure or to justify the termination on real and serious grounds. However, the termination of an employment contract during a probationary period must be
Arg strapaziert wird derzeit der Geduldsfaden der Bahnkunden – über Tage hinweg legten Gewerkschaften den Bahnverkehr mit Streiks lahm. Da eine Einigung der Lokführergewerkschaft GdL bzw. der Eisenbahnergewerkschaft EVG mit der Deutschen Bahn noch immer nicht in Sicht ist, ist zudem bis Weihnachten mit weiteren Streiks zu rechnen.
Doch was ist der Hintergrund der
The Fair Work Amendment (Bargaining Processes) Bill 2014 (the Bill) was recently introduced into Parliament and has a strong focus on workplace productivity and progressing the bargaining process.
If the Bill is passed it will require the Fair Work Commission (FWC), when approving enterprise agreements (but not greenfields deals), to be satisfied
According to Article 15 of the Colombian Constitution, the right to intimacy has been recognized as a fundamental right that must be strongly protected by the State. The mentioned provision establishes that correspondence and other forms of private communication are unbreakable; this means that they cannot be intercepted or recorded unless if it exist a