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Weapon of the week: The strike
In a new weekly series, Weapons of the Week,* we explore the accessibility of workers' legal rights, in real life. This week, we look at...
Lie detector (polygraph) tests in South Africa, 2020
There are a few things that we hate more than labour broking. One of these things is lie detector or 'polygraph' tests in factories and...
What is a labour broker? (You can't hurry law)
In January 2015, a set of laws regulating labour brokers and labour broker workers came into effect. One of the main features of that law...
California dreaming: What prospects do Uber drivers have of becoming employees in South Africa?
'The People v Uber' has a nice ring to it. Especially when a California judge ends up ordering Uber to start treating drivers as...
Marikana: Law's shame
Today, please ignore the facts that: 1. Sibanye Stillwater is attempting to rebrand the massacre of striking mineworkers at Marikana. 2....
The law on large-scale retrenchments in seven points, plus or minus two*
The CCMA has received 190 large-scale retrenchment referrals since last month, and today the CCMA's Marius Kotze said that this was...
Women's work: When all is said and done on 9 August
Since we started celebrating Women's Day 25 years ago, this is how women workers have been doing: 1. Getting outsourced Women are usually...
Suffer first: The law on wage labour
Since the lockdown started, Judge van Niekerk, doyen of Labour Court judges, has had his patience tested by employers and government....
Sticks and stones will break your... protection from dismissal during a strike?
In 2014 workers were dismissed by their employer for misconduct during a strike. Five of these workers challenged their dismissals in the...
Candyman, Beetlejuice, Voldemort, court judges and other names you can't say out loud
There is a very strange tradition in legal writing of not saying judges' names. We have experienced this as our court submissions, case...
William Zantzinger killed poor Hattie Carroll
In 1963, a young white landed American man beat a 52-year old black worker to death. His name was William Zantzinger and her name was...




