by Warren Beech | Aug 13, 2024 | Health and Safety, Mining
While many South Africans living on or close to South Africa’s underground mining operations may have felt tremors from underground mining at some stage, the most potentially affected persons are those in close proximity to South Africa’s open pit (open cast) mining...
by Warren Beech | Jun 18, 2024 | Health and Safety
Sometimes the simplest things can result in major improvements to health and safety in the workplace. Adopting a “back to basics” approach has, in our experience, produced significant improvements, and in this Top Tip Tuesday we set out some key learnings in the...
by Warren Beech | May 14, 2024 | Employment
In last week’s Top Tip Tuesday (which can be found here, we discussed the way in which the right to privacy in the employer/employee relationship was assessed by the Labour Appeal Court in the matter of Enever v Barloworld Equipment South Africa, a division of...
by Warren Beech | May 7, 2024 | Employment, Health and Safety
We have, in previous articles, addressed the key question around dismissals where there has been a breach of an employer’s zero-tolerance policies and rules regarding drugs and alcohol in the workplace. These can be accessed here, here and here. Both the Labour Court...
by Warren Beech | Apr 23, 2024 | Employment
The Labour Court had to again, recently (the matter was heard on 31 August 2023 and the judgment was handed down on 10 April 2024) consider a dismissal which went back to the “Covid-19 era” in the matter of Penbro Kelnick (Pty) Ltd and the Commission for...
