Examining Employment Discrimination in South Africa, 1997-2016

This is a study that examines racial and gender employment discrimination in 1997-2016 in South Africa. This study shows that racial and gender employment discrimination are still serious issues. It …

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South Africa: Food Delivery Men Say They’re Exploited

Many immigrant workers in South Africa who work for food delivery companies as independent contractors say they are exploited. They say they have no insurance protection, earn little but work …

South Africa: September and Others v CMI Business Enterprise CC [(CCT279/16) [2018] ZACC 4; 2018 (4) BCLR 483 (CC); (2018) 39 ILJ 987 (CC); [2018] 5 BLLR 431 (CC) (27 February 2018)]

South Africa: Three employees and their employer failed to reach a conciliation on the issue of racial discrimination at the Commission for Conciliation Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA), which is an …

Uber South Africa Technological Services (Pty) Ltd vs NUPSAW, SATAWU et al

The Labour Court of South Africa, Cape Town, held on review that the parties had failed to discharge the onus to establish that they were employees of Uber SA. The …

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Rights, Regulation and Bureaucratic Impact: The Impact of Human Rights Litigation on the Regulation of Informal Trade in Johannesburg

“In contemplating the extent to which rights-based litigation is conducive to positive social change, attention ought to be paid to the bureaucratic impact of court judgments that vindicate rights against …

Uber South Africa Technological Services (Pty) Ltd vs NUPSAW, SATAWU et al

Workers filed a complaint with the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration alleging unjust dismissal. Uber challenged the CCMA’s jurisdiction to arbitrate individual unfair dismissal disputes as the drivers are not …

Occupational Safety and Health in the Oil and Gas Industry in Selected Sub-Saharan African Countries

This paper considers the occupational safety and health problem in the oil and gas industry. Workers in this industry may suffer physical risks, biological risks and overtime. Kenya mainly uses …

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South Africa Has A New Trade Union Federation. Can It Break the Mould?

The newly launched South African Federation of Trade Unions, with nearly 700,000 members, is the second largest federation in South Africa. It attempts to be a voice for informal and …

King IV Report on Corporate Governance

Provides recommendations for corporate governance and sets forth a reporting regime wherein organizations must provide financial and nonfinancial information; while the Code is voluntary, “because it has been adopted as …

Binding Corporate Human Rights Obligations: A few observations from the South African Legal Framework

The South African Bill of rights binds private actors, as provided for in section 8(2) of the South African Constitution. However, section 8(3)(a) stipulates that when human rights provision is …

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