Archive for December 2021

While employers in South Africa are entitled to implement a mandatory vaccination policy for certain categories of employees, they will need to tread carefully when implementing these rules. This includes shouldering the responsibility of maintaining a safe and healthy working environment while still ensuring that they respect the rights of employees who raise concerns around being…

Employees have a duty to comply with the lawful and reasonable instructions of their employer.  But would the failure to comply with an instruction to testify in an arbitration before the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) amount to insubordination and warrant dismissal?  This is the question which the Labour Appeal Court (LAC) was…