Tag archives: public employer

Affirmative action to be taken to court

By Karen Ainslie (ZA) on May 8, 2013 Posted in Discrimination and harassment, South Africa

This post was contributed by Kate Paterson In July 2013, the trade union Solidarity will take the Department of Correctional Services to the Labour Court in Cape Town for what is anticipated will be a week-long trial of the constitutionality of the Department’s employment equity plan. The plan is for the Department’s employees to be … Continue reading

What are the limits of vicarious liability?

By Karen Ainslie (ZA) on April 17, 2013 Posted in South Africa

This post was contributed by Sipelelo Litji, Lauren Coetzee and Kate Paterson Employers may be vicariously liable for an employee’s actions regardless of whether they are acting in the course and scope of their employment. This is according to a Supreme Court of Appeal judgment that found the Minister of Defence to be liable for … Continue reading