SOUTH AFRICA'S NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE INCREASE - EFFECTIVE 1 MARCH 2024
The National Minimum Wage (NMW) in South Africa is set to increase by 8.5% from 1 March 2024, following the announcement by the Minister...
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EOHCB National
Nov 27, 2023
HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORANEOUS INCONSISTENCY IN DISCIPLINARY MATTERS
“Inconsistency is often either historical or contemporaneous. “Historical inconsistency” is where a company has had a number of employees...
EOHCB National
Nov 20, 2023
CONSISTENCY IN DISCIPLINARY MATTERS
The Code of Good Practice – Dismissal (item 3(6) specific) provides that an employer should apply the penalty of dismissal consistently...
EOHCB National
Nov 13, 2023
BALANCE OF PROBABILITY - DECIDING GUILT OR INNOCENCE
The “balance of probability” may be best described as a method of determining the guilt or innocence of an employee who is charged with...
EOHCB National
Nov 6, 2023
MISCONDUCT - ABUSE OF SICK LEAVE
Very often, when the absence occurs, it is always on the same day. Typically, the absence would be on a Friday, a Monday, or the day...
EOHCB National
Oct 30, 2023
MISCONDUCT - UNAUTHORISED ABSENTEEISM FROM THE WORKPLACE (ABSCONDMENT)
This type of offence is very frequent and common. It is a serious offence, because it represents a breach of contract and costs the...
EOHCB National
Oct 23, 2023
MISCONDUCT - UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF, OR HAVING CONSUMED, ALCOHOL, LIQUOR OR DRUGS
An employer is prohibited from allowing, in terms of the Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA), any person who has consumed, or who...
EOHCB National
Oct 18, 2023
NAVIGATING THE GEN Z WORKFORCE - CHALLENGES & OPPORTUNITIES
By 2025, the World Economic Forum predicts that Generation Z (Gen Z) will comprise a significant one-third of the workforce. This shift...
EOHCB National
Oct 16, 2023
MISCONDUCT - UNAUTHORISED POSSESSION OF COMPANY PROPERTY OR THEFT (MISAPPROPRIATION)
Often, when the employer cannot prove the intention to permanently deprive ownership, the charge of unauthorised possession is used...
EOHCB National
Oct 9, 2023
MISCONDUCT - UNAUTHORISED OR UNLAWFUL POSSESSION OF DRUGS OR ALCOHOL, ABUSE, OR UNDER THE INFLUENCE
This is quite a common problem in the workplace. It could also involve dealing with drugs or alcohol at the workplace, or the use or...
EOHCB National
Oct 2, 2023
MISCONDUCT - REFUSAL TO WORK OVERTIME WITHOUT A VALID REASON
This form of misconduct could also be regarded as insubordination. If the employee agreed to work overtime and then did not arrive as...
EOHCB National
Sep 25, 2023
MISCONDUCT - SEXUAL HARASSMENT
Sexual harassment in the working environment is a form of unfair discrimination and is prohibited on the grounds of sex and/or gender or...
EOHCB National
Sep 18, 2023
MISCONDUCT - DISHONESTY
This can take many forms. It could be a dishonest disclosure or nondisclosure on an employee’s CV, and the term “dishonesty” covers any...
EOHCB National
Sep 11, 2023
MISCONDUCT - CONFLICT OF INTEREST / DERELICTION OF DUTY
Conflict of interest occurs when the employee does something that conflicts with the interests of the employer. For example, the employee...
EOHCB National
Sep 6, 2023
BRIDGING THE GENERATIONAL GAP: MANAGING DIFFERENT GENERATIONS IN THE WORKPLACE
Dear EOHCB Member, Today's workplaces are more diverse than ever, not just in terms of race and gender but also in generational...
EOHCB National
Sep 4, 2023
MISCONDUCT - INSUBORDINATION
This is quite common in the workplace – it may be defined as any conduct by an employee that poses an unlawful and deliberate challenge...
EOHCB National
Aug 28, 2023
MISCONDUCT - ABUSIVE LANGUAGE, DISORDERLY BEHAVIOUR, RACISM OR RACIST COMMENTS
Swearing at employees, insulting employees, use of abusive language or racist comments cannot be tolerated. As prescribed in the Code of...
EOHCB National
Aug 21, 2023
MISCONDUCT - ASSAULT OR INDECENT ASSAULT
Assault is an unlawful and intentional attack on the body of another person. In other words, the attacker causes or intended to cause...
EOHCB National
Aug 16, 2023
TOXIC WORKING ENVIRONMENTS
For some time now, we have acknowledged the existence of a psychological contract alongside the official employment agreement. However,...
EOHCB National
Aug 14, 2023
MISCONDUCT - FALSIFYING OF DOCUMENTS
Examples hereof are medical certificates. This is a real problem area – medical certificates can be purchased at a large number of...
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