HELPLINE

You will be able to obtain assistance from leading South African labour arbitrators on relevant labour law / labour relations queries. We do our best to answers queries as quickly as possible on the same day.

Click here to access Worklaw's subscriber helpline.

See below examples of subscriber queries:


(1) Please advise, we have an employee who has been away from work for the last two months due to being arrested for a serious offence. He was refused bail. The manager wants to hold a hearing to dismiss this employee for incapacity or operational requirements. Please advise on the correct process to follow.

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(2) What will be a ground for an 'equal pay for equal work' claim under unfair discrimination, where both employees were appointed to the same job at roughly the same time and perform the same work but are paid at different salary levels? The lower paid employee wants to base a case on arbitrary grounds, but is struggling to find a ground to base her case on.

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(3) An employee was dismissed for assault and proved inconsistency because two other employees were given final written warning for the same offence - can he succeed?

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