Employment and labour law and employment relations advice and training
In areas including the following:
- Misconduct and disciplinary proceedings
- Poor work performance
- Retrenchment and restructuring processes (in terms of section 189 of the Labour Relations Act)
- Incapacity (ill health and injury, and incompatibility)
- Transfers as a going concern (in terms of section 197 of the Labour Relations Act)
- Compliance with relevant acts including the Employment Equity Act, the BCEA and the POPI Act
- Strikes and lock-outs
- Organisational rights
- Collective bargaining
- Unfair discrimination, including sexual harassment
- Restraints of trade
Facilitating dispute resolution interventions
- Mediating workplace conflict
- Mediating employment and labour disputes
- Facilitating workplace negotiations
- Facilitating collective bargaining negotiations
Drafting employment contracts and policy documents and codes
- Drafting various types of employment contracts
- Drafting disciplinary codes
- Drafting various workplace policies and codes
Conducting workplace investigations
- Investigating grievances and misconduct
- Conducting fact-finding exercises
- Providing comprehensive investigation reports in complex matters
Chairing hearings
- Disciplinary and appeal hearings
- Grievance hearings
- Incapacity hearings
Legal representation and assistance in individual and collective employment and labour law disputes
Sports law advice and services
- Drafting contracts
- Advising on contractual matters and negotiations
- Collective bargaining
- Image rights
- Dispute resolution
- Drafting various commercial and sponsorship agreements
- Advising on commercial rights and sponsorship