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The Department of Employment and Labour has established a COVID-19 TERS that works through the Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) as one of the measures to help both workers and businesses impacted by the national lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic that has paralysed numerous businesses and left many in South Africa without an income. The […]

Most of us spend time in shopping centres.  Not only to shop but also to meet people and for entertainment as well as leisure.  Most of us will also have noticed the increasing number of empty shops.  The tell-tale signs of papered up shop windows are becoming common place.  Few of us stop to consider […]

REAL TIPS FOR COLLECTING MONEY IN TOUGH TIMES Early signs of pending non-payment :- No word from the debtor when payment falls due Silence prevails.  This happens frequently.  You have supplied and delivered goods, provided services or rendered commercial performance to the benefit of the debtor.  Notwithstanding all of this you hear nothing when payment […]

The story starts with two school friends.  M and H met each other at the same technical High School in Johannesburg.  M developed a career for himself in industrial plastic piping for mining and industry.  He became interested in the concept of rehabilitating old steel pipes by inserting a plastic pipelining inside such pipes thereby […]

In answer to this question it may be best to refer to a recent decision from the Labour Court. An employee signed an employment contract which contained two potentially contentious clauses :- If her employment terminated, she had to serve a 2 month notice period; and If she failed to work for her employer for […]

It is an experience almost any business owner dreads. That moment when your most successful and senior sales person walks in and hands you his resignation. Whilst you are mentally reeling, you do have the wherewithal to ask what his future plans are. Perhaps you should not have done this because he tells you he is […]

A few years ago when the property market was booming, many people bought second or even third properties as investments. Housing developments and apartment blocks went up everywhere to meet the demand. Prices increased and still people bought. The idea was to let out these properties, preferably to corporate tenants who needed to house their […]

Not many people are comfortable appearing at the CCMA without legal representation to face the claims of often hostile employees and aggressive employees. An employer company will frequently send its HR manager or another seemingly suitable candidate to face the music and appear on its behalf. Some are familiar with the process and confidently present […]