Category: MODULE 2 – TYPES OF HUMAN RESOURCE APPOINTMENTS

Chapter 8 – Outsourcing To Contracting Firms, Mergers And Retrenchment General legislation permits employers to hire contracting firms to carry out functions required by the employer. These outsourced functions may include security, cleaning, catering and other services. However, the use of such contracting firms is strictly regulated by law. While there was previously some uncertainty […]

Chapter 7 – Labour Brokers Section 198 of the Labour Relations Act (LRA) provides for temporary and part-time employment, and for Temporary Employment Services (or TESes). These TESes are better known as ‘labour brokers’ and are required to be registered with the Department of Employment and Labour. Labour brokers can be very effectively used by […]

Chapter 6 – Independent Contractors All people belonging to the employee categories of a business have specific entitlements under the labour law because they are employees. It is only genuine independent contractors who do not have such labour law rights. An enterprise may appoint, an independent contractor, an external expert to provide them with specialist […]

Chapter 5 – Permanent, Temporary, Casual – And Part -Time Employees As of 1 January 2015, as per the new section, 198B, of the Labour Relations Act (LRA), temporary work means, for purposes of this section, work done by an employee earning below the earnings threshold, as determined by the Basic Conditions of Employment Act.  […]

Chapter 4 – Employment Contracts Employment contracts are an essential, indispensable means for both employers and employees to protect themselves. They ensure that there are no disputes regarding the employee’s terms and conditions of employment and that both employer and the prospective employee are happy with the agreed terms and have a legally binding agreement.