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Overtime - take time off
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Good day Please advise on the following: Our company is in the hospitality sector. As the staff work long hours, they are compensated for this. So they work 6 weeks, then qualify for 2 weeks time off. However, we have an employee who wasn't able to take 2 weeks time off, as it was too busy, so he opted to...
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Jun 20, 2018
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Decrease In salary.
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I have been working with the company for 5 months. They offered me a salary increase, and I accepted it. Two months past with the salary increase, but on the third month following increase, my salary was reduced again. They say “ I do not qualify for over time after my initial increase, and therefore ove...
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Anonymous
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Jun 20, 2018
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deceased employer
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What is the legal implications or rights of an employee if an employer is deceased and failed to register employee with the UIF? The employer passed away more than five years ago.
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Jun 20, 2018
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Employer charging gross insubordination or gross negligence.
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Good day, the employer is charging me with gross negligence or gross insubordination for same charge. Can they do that
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Jun 20, 2018
by LABOUR PROTECT
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Termination of service
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need some advice on termination of service.
I started work on the 11th September 2017 last year and resigned on the 10 May 2018 giving her a full two weeks written notice.
My boss refuses to accept my resignation and furthermore threatened to sue me should I leave now on the 25th May being my last day...
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May 18, 2018
by Anonymous
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Is this fair
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I am working for a company for over 9 years now.
The company name changed recently BT everything else remained the same.
We never get payslips and should I request 1 it takes months before I receive one
I have reason to believe that my pension and uif amount is only from when the company name changed so...
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May 14, 2018
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pregnancy and maternity issues with employer
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Good day I urgently need advise regarding my current situation. I have two problems: 1. I am 7 months pregnant, I am employed for 9 months now and my employer has no intention to pay me during maternity leave. I found out today that even though my employer was deducting uif, according to my payslip, my em...
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Abuse of Company Time & Insubordination Charges against my son
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My son is having a disciplinary hearing because he left work early at times and came in late at times. He was confronted by the CEO yesterday and the CEO told him that in his opinion he should be dismissed and was suspended and will now need to attend a disciplinary hearing. Are you able to assist him in p...
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Apr 17, 2018
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My last day after resigning is 06/04/2018
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My last day will be the 06/04/2018 and i asked after giving my 60 days notice if i can leave early and now they are saying they are going to keep my money due and not pay out or they will sue me like they said they will do if i dont give my 60 days is this really legal to do that?
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Apr 17, 2018
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Late salary payments
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Good day, can you please advise on my legal recourse if my company is consistently late in salary payments? This has been going on for more than a year now. As of now I am still waiting for March salary payment and no explanation or communication has been forthcoming. Please advise on what my rights are....
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Mark
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Apr 17, 2018
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overtime per contract agreement but without compenstion
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I was just wondering, Say for instance i sign my employment contract whereby I agree to work overtime but WITHOUT compensation, is this legal??? So I heard from people in the legal profession that it is part of the job when you are in this industry, you will always work overtime but it will be without pay...
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Dismissal for Company Burglary
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Good Afternoon, I would like some advise please? They broke into our office building Easter Sunday night and stole all the laptops and External Hard drives.All my work backups was on the External due to the server running out of space and I was scared it was going to crash. My boss was aware of this si...
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Held Liable for loss of company data after break in
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hi we are a small payroll company i am responsible for the payroll of 4 companies of which the biggest have 400 employees whos payroll im doing 1. i was originally employed as a office assistant not as a payroll administrator, i worked myself up to this position 2. over easter weekend the offices was b...
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Disciplinary Hearing for coming to work late on some occassions and leaving early on some occassions
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My son is having a disciplinary hearing because he left work early at times and came in late at times. He was confronted by the CEO yesterday and the CEO told him that in his opinion he should be dismissed and was suspended and will now need to attend a disciplinary hearing. Are you able to assist him in p...
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Mar 27, 2018
by Anonymous
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Unfair Dismissal
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hi there please i need your help. I was dismissed on Saturday evening after 8 o'clock. She send me a watsup not even phoning me. I did nothing wrong. No verbal or written warnings. Please let me know if you can help. I am now sitting without a job and she still has not paid my salary for this month. Th...
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Section 197 transfer
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Hi. I'm new to this forum so please excuse me if this question has been asked and answered elsewhere already. The company i work for is in the process of merging with another company through a section 197 transfer. I understand that the law is clear that the employee may not be worse off in terms of employ...
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Anonymous
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Mar 23, 2018
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Unfair labour practice
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I stayed out of work on the 15th December as I was 36 weeks pregnant and was not feeling well. I was supposed to be on maternity leave but could not go as the company had not gotten a temp for my position. I advised my manager that I would go to the doctor and did not go they asked me for a note and I said I would get...
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Conflict of Interest
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When I was appointed (8 years ago), i advised the Recruiter from the corporate organisation that I was part owner of a business. I also indicated that the business had not secured any contracts but that I was actively marketing and pitching for work. The declaration was approved and I was requested to...
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Mar 16, 2018
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Is it fair
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I received a verbal warning in January 2017.and a written warning in July 2017.and in February 2018 they gave me a final warning.for late Cumming.n I got dismissed
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Mar 14, 2018
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Is there a legal time frame of receiving written warnings?
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My employer gave me three written warnings on the same day, for the same offence, back dated... Is that legal?
As I had not received any previous warnings I was shocked & now have a disciplinary hearing coming up... Can I appeal against a final written warning at the hearing & state reasons fo...
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Mar 13, 2018
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maternity leave
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i have been working for this company for 11years already. i'm going on maternity leave end of march but i asked for my ui19 form in feb already and a few times after that aswell. the department of labour would've come and do a inspection on the place but never came and when my boss found that out he said he is...
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Mar 13, 2018
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Resigning whilst pregnant
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I am currently 34 weeks pregnant and I plan on resigning at the end of March.
I have a two month notice period, so by contract I should finish at the end of May. However I have to go on maternity leave mid April seeing as my due date is 24 April.
So indirectly I would by mid April only have worked back 2 week...
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Anonymous
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Mar 12, 2018
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Resigning whilst pregnant
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having to pay back percentage paid to me by employer during maternity leave. ( we have stipulated in our contract a repayment should we resign before 4 months after returning from maternity leave)
Regards and thank you!
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Mar 12, 2018
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salary increase
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Good Day I am not a member yet but would like to know if i can be assisted if i join Labour Protect My last increase was in 2013 We don't have meeting to discuss the matter, unless we the staff request a meeting Last meeting was in 2016 Employment contract states 13th birthday cheque Kind Regards V
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Mar 12, 2018
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Final Written Warning
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Good day I have recently been issued with a final written warning for not communicating with my line manager. I went to the doctor on an Monday and was booked off for two days with an follow-up on the Wednesday where I have been booked off for two more days (Thursday and Friday) Due to illness I could not...
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UNFAIR LABOUR PRACTICES
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I started working for a private company 17/04/2017. In the interview verbal agreements were made. I was never given a written contract. Employer always had an excuse and was very intimidating when questioned. No payslips or even Confirmation of employment letter was ever given, even I request...
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Anonymous
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Short time
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I would like to know if your company may put you on short time without singing any documents and must employees be paid a night shift allowance.
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Anonymous
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Mar 9, 2018
by Labour Protect
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Disciplined for overtime claimed and approved by directors
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I have been employed by company for 7 months, Last month whilst preparing the company overtime approval report to be signed off by the directors and all managers, I added my overtime to the report as I was not allowed to claim for the last six months but wanted to claim for this month and was expecting the...
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Anonymous
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UIF Unemployment Claims for previous months
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Hi If you are retrenched, and you start claiming UIF only a few months later (still within the 6 month period you can apply for UIF), should the UIF Payment amount be from the date of unemployment to the claim date, or from when you started claiming unemployment only? I was retrenched Oct 2017, st...
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Anonymous
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Restraint of trade
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I am a consultant working directly for a consulting house, and contracted to a client. A client of the client where i am based wants me to come work for them. As far as i can see, the restraint is only if i am employed directly by my companies client.
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Anonymous
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Feb 27, 2018
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