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Cannabis in the workplace. With the Constitutional Court ruling last week that the cultivation of cannabis and the private/personal use thereof is legalised, what are the implications of this from an employment perspective? Does it imply that the use of dagga within the workplace is now likewise legalised? Analogies are […]
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 […]
South Africans consume over five billion litres of alcohol per year, according to a study by the Medical Research Council (MRC). Alcoholism in the workplace is amongst a variety of contemporary social problems that affect the behaviour and success of people in the workplace, in this blog I focus on […]
I have often been asked about the wisdom of allowing an employee who is to face a disciplinary hearing to resign from the organisation. An employee who resigns from the organisation is, in terms of their contract of employment, bound to provide notice of that resignation in writing. The period […]
Social media is considered any form of electronic communication through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, messages, and other content. Social media includes internet forums, social blogs, wikis, microblogging (e.g. Twitter), social networks (e.g. Facebook), and many others. Social networking is the use of social media to […]
When an employee misconducts him/herself, is there a right and a wrong way of dealing with such a situation? Does the employer rush in and set a chargesheet as quickly as possible inviting the employee to appear before a disciplinary committee or should there be some sort of investigation before […]