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You might be saying that identifying a performance problem of an employee in the work environment is very easy. You clearly see that the employee is not meeting their targets set for them by their manager or in their performance agreement and then you know that there must be a […]
November and December have been described as the season to be jolly. Experience tells me that many employees have taken this quite literally from an employee relations perspective! Disciplinary related issues involving employees and those particularly relating to arriving at work in an unfit condition, absence from work, altercations between […]
Can an employer simply decide not to pay a salary bonus at all? To pay it at a different time in the year? Or to spread payment of any bonus awarded to an employee over a few months to assist it in its cash flow? South African Labour Law is […]
A dismissal may be determined to be fair if it relates to the employee’s conduct, incapacity, or the employer’s operational requirements. However, there are instances where the employee’s dismissal ostensibly falls in between being a capacity and operational requirement related issue and where the dividing line that separates capacity and […]
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 […]
At common law employers are responsible for setting standards of performance and employees are responsible for attaining them. This is overly simplistically put I know. There is much that needs to be considered in regard to how realistic the standards are, to what extent the employee should be involved in […]