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Flexible working – achieving a work life balance

By Karen Ainslie (ZA) on September 19, 2014 Posted in Discrimination and harassment, South Africa

This article was written by Amelia Berman, an associate at Norton Rose Fulbright South Africa, Sandton Flexible working, or flexi-time, is the concept of adjusting the working hours of an employee so that he or she no longer has to render services during the employer’s core business hours but rather where he or she chooses … Continue reading

A duvet day keeps the doctor away

By Karen Ainslie (ZA) on July 16, 2014 Posted in South Africa

This article was written by Amelia Berman, an associate at Norton Rose Fulbright South Africa While countries in the northern hemisphere are currently enjoying their long summer holidays, we South Africans are facing a cold (and unusually wet) winter wishing that we could borrow a practice from the United Kingdom and the United States and … Continue reading