Joy Beckett
UK law firm introduces pay cut for at home workers
TOP UK LAW FIRM SAYS STAFF CAN WORK FROM HOME FOR A 20% PAY CUT! IS THIS APPROACH PROBLEMATIC? Can we consider implementing this in...
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Nerine Kahn
- Apr 20, 2022
- 4 min
Surviving the post-consensus society and redesigning conflict resolutions
We’re doomed… Or at least we’re doomed if negotiators and mediators don’t start paying heed to the new negotiation style gaining traction...
Joy Beckett
- Apr 20, 2022
- 4 min
Is bigger always better when it comes to company policies?
Does anyone still read the small print? On our media devices alone we accede to roughly 20 000 words of Terms and Conditions a day – some...
Nerine Kahn
- Apr 20, 2022
- 4 min
Reflections on the labour market a year after leaving the CCMA
In a world where reconciliation and mediation should be the order of the day, it appears that all parties have become more rigid in how...
Nerine Kahn
- Apr 20, 2022
- 6 min
The [fake] case of state protection failing employment justice?
Given how I have spent the last twenty or so years of my career, I tend, at second blush, when evaluating individuals in their careers,...
Joy Beckett
- Apr 20, 2022
- 5 min
What managers need to know when dealing with potential disciplinary offences
Setting your team up for success: What managers need to know when dealing with potential disciplinary offences. Dealing with difficult or...
Joy Beckett
- Apr 20, 2022
- 3 min
Performance Improvement Programs
Do they constitute victimisation? Recently, we have been receiving a fair amount of enquiries about how staff should deal with their...
Nerine Kahn
- Apr 20, 2022
- 1 min
Employee Relations: Are we just doing orbits, or have we really titled the trajectory?
1910 after the declaration of the South African union 1924 Industrial Conciliation Act provided for the registration of Trade Unions(TU)...
Nerine Kahn
- Apr 20, 2022
- 8 min
Do trade unions have a future in South Africa?
Are unions a thing of the past? Should civil society take over from them? Is Cosatu too close to the government and is its past role...
Neil Coetzer & Manala Rabothata
- Apr 20, 2022
- 3 min
Mutual separation agreements are valid and binding - constitutional court
In Gbenga-Oluwatoye v Reckitt Benckiser South Africa (Pty) Limited and Another (2016) 37 ILJ 2723 (CC), the Constitutional Court ("the...
Joy Beckett
- Apr 20, 2022
- 1 min
Fathoming the national minimum wage
I have spent considerable time recently evaluating the practicalities of implementing the Bill on the NMW at numerous clients’ requests....
Nerine Kahn
- Apr 20, 2022
- 1 min
PODCAST: Insights into the CCMA
Nerine Kahn spent 10 years fixing the CCMA. What a decade of achievement! A superb interview conducted with a straight shooter In 2006,...
Nerine Kahn
- Apr 14, 2022
- 3 min
New rotation in conflict resolution
Let’s face it, South Africa is a country of great opportunity. And we have made great strides over the course of our young democracy....
Joy Beckett
- Feb 17, 2022
- 5 min
7 Critical skills for the jobs of the future
We live in a world of accelerating change. New industries are constantly being born and old ones are becoming obsolete. A report by the...
Nerine Kahn
- Feb 16, 2022
- 5 min
Are we seeing the consensus approach kicked to the curb?
In South Africa, in fact, the world seems upside-down. We live in a world where the working class masses voted Britain out of the EU,...
Joy Beckett
- Nov 30, 2021
- 5 min
Mental health in the South African workplaces
Increasingly employer organisations, trade unions and government policy makers are realising that the social and economic costs of mental...
Nerine Kahn
- Nov 18, 2021
- 3 min
Workplace mobbing mounting!
Mobbing is ‘bullying on steroids’, a horrifying new trend where a bully enlists co-workers to collude in a relentless campaign of...
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