For Employers
CCMA/Bargaining Council – Conciliation and Arbitration
- Dealing with CCMA can be stressful, costly and time-consuming. We provide expert, end-to-end assistance tailor made for your circumstances. We will be on your side to ensure disputes are strategically managed from start to finish.
- Our services include but not limited to analysing the matter, identifying risks, disciplinary & procedural review, witness preparation, drafting settlement agreement and post-arbitration support.
Trade Union Negotiations
- Trade union relations require experience, strategy and solid experience of labour legislation.
- Our comprehensive experience include but not limited to collective bargaining preparation, representation in negotiation meetings, managing organisational rights disputes, industrial action management, drafting and reviewing agreements.
Retrenchments
- Retrenchments are an emotional and financial burdening process for any employer. Outsourcing the management to us will ensure the legal requirements are met, minimising any back firing that will result in further losses.
- Our experience will guide you from issuing notices, to consultation all the way to correct severance pay principles,
Department of Labour Compliance - Basic Conditions of Employment (BCEA)
- Compliance to BCEA is critical for every employer in South Africa. We assist companies to understand, implement and maintain full compliance. This minimises legal risk and ensures fair and consistent workplace practices for our clients.
- We review policies and contracts to ensure they meet statutory requirement.
- We provide practical training to help HR personnel to understand and apply them accurately in their day-to-day operations,
Employment Contracts and Company Policies
- We will guide you to design employment contracts and company policies that meet all your business requirements and are industry specific.
- Ensuring that the employment contracts are within all relevant legal frameworks, with the aim to protect the employer
Disciplinary Hearings
- The onus is on the employer to ensure disciplinary hearings are substantively and procedurally fair. Our extensive experience in labour law makes us the best to providing a comprehensive guide to employers. We will advice on evidence on hand, risks and merits of the case. We will ensure that substantive and procedural fairness is maintained throughout the disciplinary process.
Staff Counselling and Mediation
- Staff counselling are supportive processes where an employer aids employees to address matters that affect their work performance or behaviour. While mediation is a neutral but structured process to resolve disputes between employees or between employees and management.
- We offer step by step guides on how to handle both so that the employer reaps full benefits of the processes such as prevention of escalation, improving performance, morale and productivity. We will ensure that the process is procedurally fair and reduces the legal risk for CCMA referrals.
Managing Poor Work Performance
- We offer practical, step by step guide on how to manage workplace performance fairly and within the confinements of the South African labour laws. We will support your business with communication, drawing monitoring tools and plan review.
- We will support in disciplinary procedures if needed, ensuring the process is both substantially and procedurally fair. Further supporting with maintaining documentation ensuring the employer is protected in case of CCMA or labour dispute claims.
Control of Absenteeism
- Excessive absenteeism disrupts productivity; places strain on teams and increases costs.
- We help companies implement effective, legally compliant strategies to manage, reduce, and prevent absenteeism in the workplace
Training
- We provide practical BCEA & LRA training to help HR personnel to understand and apply them accurately in their day-to-day operations.
- We empower manager and HR teams with knowledge and training to avoid future disputes,
Advice on all Labour Matters
- With over 20 years experience in the labour law field, there are very few scenarios we have no experience in. We offer comprehensive council on labour relations, employment law compliance and workplace policies. Make us your strategic advisors on all aspects or you labour and employment law and to guide you in mitigating your workplace risks.
