Fixed-term contracts: What employers need to know
Fixed-term contracts: What employers need to know An employee has been employed on a fixed-term employment contract for a number of years. Each consecutive year, the fixed contract is renewed at the election of the employer. After the fixed contract expired, the employer decides not to renew the employee’s contract. Is the employee entitled to […]
What is a reasonable expectation of renewal?
An employee has been employed on a fixed-term employment contract for a number of years. Each consecutive year, the fixed contract is renewed at the election of the employer. After the fixed contract expired, the employer decides not to renew the employee’s contract. Is the employee entitled to a renewal of the fixed-term employment contract […]
WORKPLACE SKILLS PLANS AND ANNUAL TRAINING REPORTS
All SA companies who employ people, and whose annual payroll exceeds R500,000.00, are required to pay 1% of their monthly payroll to SARS in the form of a Skills Development Levy (SDL). 2% of this amount is kept by SARS for administrative purposes, and the remaining 98% is given to the National Skills Fund (NSF). […]
MANAGING FIXED TERM CONTRACTS OF EMPLOYMENT
The Labour Relations Amendment Act 2014 (promulgated on 18 August 2014 and effective from 1 January 2015) introduced tighter regulation of fixed term contracts of employment with employees earning below the statutory threshold or employed in businesses with less than 10 employees or less than 50 employees during the first 2 years of the business’s […]