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The Minister of Employment and Labour has published a notice regarding the 2024 BCEA earnings threshold increase. The increased earnings threshold is an amount of R254 371.67 per annum. The new 2024 BCEA Earnings Threshold will take effect on 1 April 2024. The earnings threshold prior to the increase is […]

Registration is now open for the Labour Law News Conference to be held at Focus Rooms in Johannesburg on 29 February 2024. Speakers include Cameron Morajane (the Director of the CCMA),  Anton Myburgh SC (Senior Counsel: Johannesburg Bar), Aadil Patel (Head of Employment Department: Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr), Tanya Venter (CEO: […]

The CCMA has issued the following communique regarding CCMA operating hours during the festive season: Dear CCMA Users and Stakeholders, It is that time of the year again where festivities and cheer fill the air as we reflect on the course this year has taken with those dear to us. […]

The National Minimum Wage Commission Report 2023 has been published in the Government Gazette. It contains recommendations regarding an increase to the national minimum wage. The majority of Commissioners (8 out of 11) have recommended an increase of CPI +3%. The other 3 Commissioners have recommended an increase which is […]

The Systems Act, which applies to municipalities, contains a prohibition on staff holding political office in a political party. SAMWU challenged the prohibition as being unconstitutional in relation to non-managerial staff. It argued that the prohibition serves no rational purpose and is an unjustified limitation of the constitutional right to […]

The High Court has delivered a ground-breaking judgment declaring provisions of the Basic Conditions of Employment Act on parental leave unconstitutional. In the judgment, Sutherland DJP found that the provisions discriminate unfairly between mothers and fathers, and between birth-mothers and mothers through surrogacy and adoption, in relation to the amount […]

Trade union Solidarity and the government have concluded a settlement agreement regarding a Solidarity employment equity dispute. The settlement stems from a complaint referred to the International Labour Organization (ILO) regarding the government’s approach to employment equity.  Solidarity complained that the country’s employment equity legislation puts too much emphasis on […]

Trade union Solidarity has launched an application in the Labour Court in which it challenges the constitutionality of employment equity amendments contained in the recently promulgated Employment Equity Amendment Act. Solidarity alleges that the amendments are unconstitutional. Solidarity further contends that the amendments are contrary to international labour conventions. According […]

It is once again that time of the year when all designated employers need to submit their annual 2022 employment equity (EE) reports, with the employment equity reporting deadline approaching. The deadline for employers to submit their annual 2022 employment equity (EE) reports is 15 January 2023 at midnight. The […]

The National Minimum Wage Commission (NMW) is inviting written representation from all interested stakeholders in preparation for the National Minimum Wage 2023 adjustments. The Commission will publish its annual report and recommendations concerning possible adjustment to the national minimum wage to the Minister of Employment and Labour later in 2022, […]