Guiding you through your employment law and industrial relations requirements
Whether you are a listed corporate or an SMME, our Employment Law Service provides comprehensive advice on managing every aspect of an employee’s life cycle.
Our service will ensure that your workplace procedures comply with legislation, from recruitment and selection (incorporating your employment equity plan) to dismissal for misconduct, incapacity, or operational requirements.
We also assist with debarment matters, ensuring that a financial services provider’s debarments conform to the Financial Advisory and Intermediary Services Act and the FSCA’s Guidance Notice 1 of 2019.
Our Employment Law Service has substantial transactional experience in all areas of contentious and non-contentious employment law, including:
- Handling high-profile restructurings, mergers and acquisitions;
- Advising on sensitive settlement matters and exco disputes, collective bargaining disputes, corporate governance, and whistle-blower claims; and
- Day-to-day disciplinary and grievance matters.
Our specialists have international experience across the primary, manufacturing, service and quaternary (education, research and development) sectors of the economy, as well as non-profit organisations.
General industrial relations services:
- Standard letter of employment agreements, codes, policies and procedures that can be downloaded
- Practical forms and guidelines to enable HR and managers to navigate day-to-day occurrences in the workplace (a step-by-step guide on what to do and how to do it)
- Advice on and support with operational requirement matters
- Conduct industrial relations statutory and best practice due diligence audits on existing contracts, policies and procedures (good corporate governance)
Disciplinary matters and disputes:
- Investigation and chairing of misconduct and incapacity hearings, together with drafting the outcomes
- Assist with preparing matters to appear at the CCMA, Bargaining Council or Statutory Council
- Advise on misconduct and incapacity matters
Debarments:
- Prepare debarment notices
- Representation at debarment hearings
- Independent chairing of debarment hearings
Ongoing support and training:
- Email, Teams, and telephone support on industrial relations challenges
- FAQ webinar sessions for retainer clients
- Webinar refresher training on the standard policies and procedures made available through our service offering
- Facilitated training on all aspects of employment law
- Email, Teams, and telephone support on industrial relations challenges
- FAQ webinar sessions for retainer clients
- Webinar refresher training on the standard policies and procedures made available through our service offering
- Facilitated training on all aspects of employment law
Employment equity services:
- Organisational due diligence to assess the level of a company’s employment equity maturity
- Conduct surveys to identify the barriers to achieving employment equity in the workplace
- Design and implement employment equity strategies, policies and procedures
- Design and implement a constitution for an employment equity committee
- Assist with the process of electing an employment equity committee
- Train an employment equity committee on the company’s internal strategies, policies and procedures
- Train employees on the goals of the Employment Equity Act
- In collaboration with Moonstone Workforce Solutions, we can also assist with:
- Advice on employment equity, including drafting an employment equity plan, reporting thereon and identifying alternative action measures
- Developing an employment equity plan
- Conducting employment equity statutory and best practice due diligence audits on existing contracts, policies and procedures (good corporate governance)
- Completing and submitting the company’s employment equity report(s) to the Department of Employment and Labour
