The South African National Assembly recently passed amendments to the Labour Relations Act which will roll back the right to strike. This briefing will analyse the amendments, their implications and ...

Section 198A of the Labour Relations Act (LRA), also known as “deeming provision”, has been a contentious issue since it came into effect in 2015, and even more so since the Constitutional Court ...

After a ruling from the Labour Court in Cape Town, 23 employees dismissed for an unprotected strike will be reinstated with 16 months' back pay, as the court deemed their dismissals unfair due to a ...

The Labour Party is tentatively backing a policy proposal from the CTU, but the Workplace Relations Minister says it's "not ...

The new Labour Relations Law was passed in 2005. The problematic provisions of the law refer to the protection of labour rights in the case of an ownership change on the employer’s side (Article 68).