It seems that a new trend has now begun to emerge and which is impacting on the Employee Relations front in South Africa. The trend is that a band of Economic Freedom Fighters T-shirt wearing protesters arrive at the gate of an employer. The size of the “band” of protesters […]
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Is success at an arbitration at the Commission for Conciliation Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) or a bargaining council all about the merits of your case? The answer is that the merits of your case carries significant weightiness but success extends beyond that into a number of other important considerations bearing […]
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The definition of toxic is a poisonous substance, harmful, malignant, poisonous or venomous. The word itself conjures up all sorts of thoughts of nastiness. When you pronounce the word, it even sounds ugly and perverse. The word toxic has become associated with workplaces that are dysfunctional and for all intensive […]
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Conflict is endemic to the world of work, interactions in voluntary associations, sport clubs and churches. As long as there people there will be conflict. This is because people have diverse values, beliefs and opinions and diverse personalities and come from different backgrounds. With all these differences comes the […]
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Polygraph tests are frequently employed by employers in instances where they wish to verify whether the truth is being presented by a testee/employee in a particular circumstance or not. The result of a polygraph shows whether the responses of a testee indicate deception, no deception is indicated or whether the […]
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