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Category Archives: Performance

Types of Employment Policies and Procedures

Employment Policies and Procedures are necessary for the business owner to establish company rules and procedures and to ensure that their employees fully understand their rights, obligations and the necessary steps to take in various employment-related situations. After reading and signing an Employment Contract that references the employer’s policies & procedures, the employee becomes bound…

Contracts of employment are a legal requirement

Are your contracts, agreements, forms and documents all in order? In the course of our dealings with businesses, we have often come across instances where an employer has appointed staff without a proper letter of appointment or Employment Contract. Or they can’t find the employee’s written terms of employment when they are asked to produce…

Guidelines for Paying Overtime to Your Employees

Do you have to pay staff for overtime? Well, here’s a snippet of information that can add value to your company’s bottom line, although your employees may not particularly like us much for revealing this to you: not all employees are entitled to overtime pay. In terms of the Basic Conditions of Employment Act, the…

Insist on a medical certificate

When must a medical certificate be produced by an employee? Can an employer refuse to pay an employee who has been off sick? The Basic Conditions of Employment Act states that an employer is not required to pay an employee if the employee: has been absent from work for more than two consecutive days or…

Managing Incapacity at Work: Policies and Procedures for Employers

With the fierce competitiveness facing most industries today, your business cannot afford to turn a blind eye to employees that simply aren’t performing. In addition to the direct expenses of having a poor performer on your payroll, there are also the hidden costs of correcting their mistakes, dealing with customer complaints, and the additional time needed…

Constructive Dismissal: What it is and How to Handle it

Finally, “that” employee hands in her resignation. There is a collective sigh of relief in the office. But the respite is all too brief. The next thing you know, the employee files a complaint with the CCMA for constructive dismissal. Labour specialists frequently find themselves facing questions about constructive dismissal. Employees want to know whether…

Employee Discipline: What Employers Need to Know

It is an unfortunate fact of the South African labour environment that the employer-employee relationship is not always a bed of roses. Occasionally you have to deal with thorny issues that inevitably arise from time to time. Such as an employee that drinks on duty, persists in arriving late or leaving early, stubbornly refuses to…