Employment and labour
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Government entities, parastatals, construction and engineering companies, energy, banking and finance corporates and companies in the retail, production, mining and telecommunication sectors trust our team of specialist labour and employment lawyers in a challenging regulatory environment.
We have extensive experience in resolving complicated employment issues and are unrivalled in our ability to produce practical solutions for clients quickly, efficiently and with sensitivity. Our team is skilled at handling general employment, collective employment/labour law, individual employment law and employment litigation.
Our skills include
- Corporate governance
- Due diligence review
- Employee benefits and compensation
- Executive severance
- Health and safety
- Immigration
- International employment and labour law practice
- Pension
- Regulatory advice
- Share incentive and option schemes
- Training and compliance
- Business transfers
- Board reorganisation
- Collective bargaining
- Corporate transactions (including cross-border mergers and acquisition)
- Employment equity (Affirmative action)
- Outsourcing
- Restructuring, reorganisation, reduction and retrenchment
- Strikes
- Confidentiality and trade secrets
- Data privacy
- Employment contracts
- Employee privacy
- Independent contractors
- Non-solicitation of employees
- Policy, procedure and handbook development
- Restraint of trade
- Unfair competition
- Alternative dispute resolution
- Discrimination (including race, gender and age)
- Collective and individual employment litigation
- Unfair labour practice litigation
We offer
- A large team of labour and employment specialists, based across South Africa, with pan-African involvement.
- Team members with expertise ranging from transfer and mergers, unfair discrimination (with specific experience handling racial and sexual discrimination), retrenchments, executive dismissal and various other areas of labour and employment legislation.
- Team members who are members of the South African Labour Law Society.
- Global resources who offer expertise on international employment issues.
- A full range of employment and labour law services.
- Assistance on contentious, transactional and advisory issues.
- Thorough and current expertise on South African labour and employment law.
- Labour seminars tackling areas of labour and employment legislation unique to South Africa.