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Anonymous

There is a new manager at my workplace and he says we are working less than the required hours a week. I clock in at 6:30 and clock out at 16:00 from Monday to Thursday then on Friday I clock out at 14:00. I want to know if I am robbing the company or not. And with the working hours does that mean at 06:30 I should...

Anonymous

Good day, please advise if warnings may be given based on the tone of a text message. To my understanding the tone of a msg is perceived, I standard professional msg provide basic info. If person reads it as toned wrong its their perception? Can a warning be issued for this?

Anonymous

My employer has not submitted a UI19 to the department to inform them of my retrenchment. I was unaware until the agency I employed to handle the UIF claim for me informed me that the department has no record of my retrenchment. My time is now up as it has been six months (thats how long this has been going o...

Anonymous

Issue: In 2008 the then SGB Body took an SGB employee earning let's say R8000 and moved this employee to a GDE post which was only paying R5000.00 with the agreement that the SGB would top up the balance of R3000.00. This lady has been under this arrangement until 2017 when it was discovered that this i...

Anonymous

I would like to know if i go on early pension will uif deduct an amount from my pension fund

Missy786

I requested a trAnsfer from Dbn to Jhb in 2015, the company assisted and found me the same position in management in Jhb. Recently my husband got a promotion and it is in Dbn. I requested a transfer back to Dbn but within the 3 years in Jhb, I was promoted 2 times and my salary increased. The company has acce...

Anonymous

Good day How does lunch break work for drivers and their assistants in the truck ? Flexi lunch ?

Unhappy

I work in the hospitality industry and myself and other staff are working many more hours than the maximum stipulated by law. We do net get paid overtime or Sunday time and we cannot describe the overtime as being "agreed upon". We are suppose to get days off for more hours worked, but it d...

Anonymous

Good day,We need some advice please.My wife is leaving her current job after being with the company on a permanent basis for 6 months.She attended a short training course which the company paid for and now deducted the full amount from her final paycheck.They do not have a clause in her contract makin...

Anonymous

Good day, We need some advice please. My wife is leaving her current job after being with the company on a permanent basis for 6 months. She attended a short training course which the company paid for and now deducted the full amount from her final paycheck. They do not have a clause in her contract makin...

Anonymous

Some advise please. My husband worked for a company for two and a half months. He got sick and was booked off by a doctor for three days. When he returned to work he was told no work today. He went home and after several attempts got hold of the boss who told him to come and see him with his certificate. H...

Anonymous

I was on leave for six days, I was advised by my manager to log the leave 5min before end of shift. I did that in a hurry but logged only for 5 days. My leave was from the 1st of August 2018 to the 8th of August 2018.I was suppose to be back the Friday the 10th August 2018. I was suppose to have worked the Satu...

Anonymous

Good morning, I wanted to please find out if I'm still on my 3 months (2 months in)probation and I was told that I am not needed any longer(nothing bad, just no longer needed). And I get asked to leave immediately(13th of August). What is the law for my salary, do the owe me a full month's salary and do the...

Anonymous

the company refuses that i must not claim uif have been unemployed since december 2017 beacause i am foreign national and i was permanently employed.

porcia

Goodmorning, I was working as an independent contractor at a development company in witbank from 1 August 2017, the company does not pay a basic salary, they only pay commision in three stages, 1. R2000 INSTRUCTION WHEN THE CLIENT RECIEVES A GRANT FROM THE BANK. 2. R3000 WHEN THE HOUSE IS REGISTERED U...

Mark G

Evening all, I hope you can help me out here, If I submit a letter of resignation under duress but still want to take the matter up with the CCMA would I be able to? Thank you

Ann

I am a permanent employee of St Chad’s Anglican Church in Table View, Cape Town. We are one of a number of churches under the umbrella of the Diocese of Saldanha Bay. I have been working as Secretary here for 6 years and during that time I have never belonged to the pension fund. I recently came across an e...

Anonymous

I HAVE A SITUATION WHERE A COLLEGUE THAT ROTATES BETWEEN BRANCHES IS CAUSING ME UNHAPINESS. IT STARTED WITH THIS PERSON PLAYING OTHER COLLEGUES AGAINST ME AND TRYING TO GET THEM TO AID IN IMPLYING THINGS TO SENIOR MANAGMENT ABOUT ME. THIS PERSON HAS ON MANY OCCASIONS MADE COMMENTS AND REMARKS ABOUT...

Anonymous

I am on unpaid maternity leave and want to resign and be a stay at home mom, can I do it and what is the procedures

Anonymous

Good Day, Long story Short - My previous employer suspected me of theft and proceded with a theft case against me after personally going to see the investing officer three times I was arrested and thrown in jail after having to sell almost all my personal belongings to pay for a lawyer I was enventuall...

Anonymous

Good day For the past four years I used our company's pool car with fuel as part of my package (no formal contract but word of mouth), my employer has now sold the company and is leaving. I inquired about the perks that I have enjoyed for the past couple of years and was told that I will have to be taxed acco...

WORRIED WIFE

Good Day I would be most grateful if you someone could assist me with the following ambiguous issues. 1. In the case of a permanent employee, who works 45 hours per week (Monday to Friday 07h00 - 16h00), and is required to work overtime on a PUBLIC HOLIDAY that falls between a Monday and a Friday; he h...

Anonymous

Good Day, Long story Short - My previous employer suspected me of theft and proceded with a theft case against me after personally going to see the investing officer three times I was arrested and thrown in jail after having to sell almost all my personal belongings to pay for a lawyer I was enventuall...

Anonymous

Hi I would like to find out if it is fair if my employer makes a payroll mistake and the error is picked up after payroll submissions but over a week before salaries are due to be paid to want to pay the owed amount the following month, when they are able to deduct wage after payroll submissions when you have...

Connectsa

Our Tourism Office Manager is being offered a new contract with a reduction in salary to the minimum wage. Her old contract has been cancelled and She was asked some time during that contract to again take a reduction in salary or lose her job. A new tourism marketing manager has been employed on a 6 mon...

Anonymous

Good Day I need a little advise as to what choices I have. I went for a interview in Jan 2018 and was offered the job. I resigned from my current job and worked my 30 day notice. Two days before I had to start working at the new company I was informed there is a retrenchment process in place so when I star...

Anonymous

i WAS TREATED IN A RUDE MANNER BY ONE OF MY COLLEQUES. VERBAL MISUSE FROM A COLLEQUE WHO IS NOT A MANAGER IN HIS POSITION. HE WAS APPOINTED TO ASSIST ALL OF US IN THE OFFICE.. KLINDLY ADVISE ON THIS BEHAVIOUR PLEASE.

Anonymous

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...

Anonymous

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...

Anonymous

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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	working hours (Preview) There is a new manager at my workplace and he says we are working less than the required hours a week. I clock in at 6:30 and clock out at 16:00 from Monday to Thursday then on Friday I clock out at 14:00. I want to know if I am robbing the company or not. And with the working hours does that mean at 06:30 I should...	Anonymous	1	595	Oct 19, 2018 by LABOUR PROTECT
	Warnings for tone in messages or writing style (Preview) Good day, please advise if warnings may be given based on the tone of a text message. To my understanding the tone of a msg is perceived, I standard professional msg provide basic info. If person reads it as toned wrong its their perception? Can a warning be issued for this?	Anonymous	1	533	Oct 19, 2018 by LABOUR PROTECT
	Retrenchment - UI19 (Preview) My employer has not submitted a UI19 to the department to inform them of my retrenchment. I was unaware until the agency I employed to handle the UIF claim for me informed me that the department has no record of my retrenchment. My time is now up as it has been six months (thats how long this has been going o...	Anonymous	0	611	Oct 12, 2018 by Anonymous
	Section 38 (a) Education (Preview) Issue: In 2008 the then SGB Body took an SGB employee earning let's say R8000 and moved this employee to a GDE post which was only paying R5000.00 with the agreement that the SGB would top up the balance of R3000.00. This lady has been under this arrangement until 2017 when it was discovered that this i...	Anonymous	0	645	Sep 19, 2018 by Anonymous
	Pension and uif (Preview) I would like to know if i go on early pension will uif deduct an amount from my pension fund	Anonymous	0	712	Sep 10, 2018 by Anonymous
	Transfer request (Preview) I requested a trAnsfer from Dbn to Jhb in 2015, the company assisted and found me the same position in management in Jhb. Recently my husband got a promotion and it is in Dbn. I requested a transfer back to Dbn but within the 3 years in Jhb, I was promoted 2 times and my salary increased. The company has acce...	Missy786	0	684	Sep 9, 2018 by Missy786
	Drivers and Drivers assistance lunch break (Preview) Good day How does lunch break work for drivers and their assistants in the truck ? Flexi lunch ?	Anonymous	0	672	Sep 7, 2018 by Anonymous
	Working hours hospitality industry (Preview) I work in the hospitality industry and myself and other staff are working many more hours than the maximum stipulated by law. We do net get paid overtime or Sunday time and we cannot describe the overtime as being "agreed upon". We are suppose to get days off for more hours worked, but it d...	Unhappy	15	13590	Sep 2, 2018 by Anonymous
	Very Urgent!!! (Preview) Good day,We need some advice please.My wife is leaving her current job after being with the company on a permanent basis for 6 months.She attended a short training course which the company paid for and now deducted the full amount from her final paycheck.They do not have a clause in her contract makin...	Anonymous	0	775	Aug 29, 2018 by Anonymous
	Training Deduction (Preview) Good day, We need some advice please. My wife is leaving her current job after being with the company on a permanent basis for 6 months. She attended a short training course which the company paid for and now deducted the full amount from her final paycheck. They do not have a clause in her contract makin...	Anonymous	0	713	Aug 29, 2018 by Anonymous
	CCMA Award not being paid by company even after CCMA process completed (Preview) Some advise please. My husband worked for a company for two and a half months. He got sick and was booked off by a doctor for three days. When he returned to work he was told no work today. He went home and after several attempts got hold of the boss who told him to come and see him with his certificate. H...	Anonymous	0	788	Aug 23, 2018 by Anonymous
	Final Written Warning (Preview) I was on leave for six days, I was advised by my manager to log the leave 5min before end of shift. I did that in a hurry but logged only for 5 days. My leave was from the 1st of August 2018 to the 8th of August 2018.I was suppose to be back the Friday the 10th August 2018. I was suppose to have worked the Satu...	Anonymous	0	719	Aug 17, 2018 by Anonymous
	Probation (Preview) Good morning, I wanted to please find out if I'm still on my 3 months (2 months in)probation and I was told that I am not needed any longer(nothing bad, just no longer needed). And I get asked to leave immediately(13th of August). What is the law for my salary, do the owe me a full month's salary and do the...	Anonymous	0	738	Aug 16, 2018 by Anonymous
	foreign national company refuse me to claim UIF (Preview) the company refuses that i must not claim uif have been unemployed since december 2017 beacause i am foreign national and i was permanently employed.	Anonymous	0	753	Aug 14, 2018 by Anonymous
	Development company not willing to pay my commision (Preview) Goodmorning, I was working as an independent contractor at a development company in witbank from 1 August 2017, the company does not pay a basic salary, they only pay commision in three stages, 1. R2000 INSTRUCTION WHEN THE CLIENT RECIEVES A GRANT FROM THE BANK. 2. R3000 WHEN THE HOUSE IS REGISTERED U...	porcia	0	693	Aug 14, 2018 by porcia
	Resignation under Duress (Preview) Evening all, I hope you can help me out here, If I submit a letter of resignation under duress but still want to take the matter up with the CCMA would I be able to? Thank you	Mark G	0	686	Aug 11, 2018 by Mark G
	Pension Fund Membership (Preview) I am a permanent employee of St Chad’s Anglican Church in Table View, Cape Town. We are one of a number of churches under the umbrella of the Diocese of Saldanha Bay. I have been working as Secretary here for 6 years and during that time I have never belonged to the pension fund. I recently came across an e...	Ann	2	1004	Jul 16, 2018 by Anonymous
	Discrimination and harrasment (Preview) I HAVE A SITUATION WHERE A COLLEGUE THAT ROTATES BETWEEN BRANCHES IS CAUSING ME UNHAPINESS. IT STARTED WITH THIS PERSON PLAYING OTHER COLLEGUES AGAINST ME AND TRYING TO GET THEM TO AID IN IMPLYING THINGS TO SENIOR MANAGMENT ABOUT ME. THIS PERSON HAS ON MANY OCCASIONS MADE COMMENTS AND REMARKS ABOUT...	Anonymous	0	866	Jul 11, 2018 by Anonymous
	Resign while on unpaid maternity leave (Preview) I am on unpaid maternity leave and want to resign and be a stay at home mom, can I do it and what is the procedures	Anonymous	0	801	Jul 11, 2018 by Anonymous
	Provident Fund Withhold (Preview) Good Day, Long story Short - My previous employer suspected me of theft and proceded with a theft case against me after personally going to see the investing officer three times I was arrested and thrown in jail after having to sell almost all my personal belongings to pay for a lawyer I was enventuall...	Anonymous	1	687	Jul 11, 2018 by Labour Protect
	Can fringe benefits be taken away? (Preview) Good day For the past four years I used our company's pool car with fuel as part of my package (no formal contract but word of mouth), my employer has now sold the company and is leaving. I inquired about the perks that I have enjoyed for the past couple of years and was told that I will have to be taxed acco...	Anonymous	0	674	Jul 5, 2018 by Anonymous
	MAXIMUM OVERTIME PER MONTH (Preview) Good Day I would be most grateful if you someone could assist me with the following ambiguous issues. 1. In the case of a permanent employee, who works 45 hours per week (Monday to Friday 07h00 - 16h00), and is required to work overtime on a PUBLIC HOLIDAY that falls between a Monday and a Friday; he h...	WORRIED WIFE	0	759	Jul 4, 2018 by WORRIED WIFE
	Provident Fund Withhold (Preview) Good Day, Long story Short - My previous employer suspected me of theft and proceded with a theft case against me after personally going to see the investing officer three times I was arrested and thrown in jail after having to sell almost all my personal belongings to pay for a lawyer I was enventuall...	Anonymous	0	628	Jun 26, 2018 by Anonymous
	Overtime (Preview) Hi I would like to find out if it is fair if my employer makes a payroll mistake and the error is picked up after payroll submissions but over a week before salaries are due to be paid to want to pay the owed amount the following month, when they are able to deduct wage after payroll submissions when you have...	Anonymous	0	679	Jun 20, 2018 by Anonymous
	Reduced salary (Preview) Our Tourism Office Manager is being offered a new contract with a reduction in salary to the minimum wage. Her old contract has been cancelled and She was asked some time during that contract to again take a reduction in salary or lose her job. A new tourism marketing manager has been employed on a 6 mon...	Connectsa	1	609	Jun 20, 2018 by
	Bridge of contract (Preview) Good Day I need a little advise as to what choices I have. I went for a interview in Jan 2018 and was offered the job. I resigned from my current job and worked my 30 day notice. Two days before I had to start working at the new company I was informed there is a retrenchment process in place so when I star...	Anonymous	1	742	Jun 20, 2018 by LABOUR PROTECT
	FORMAL LETTER OF GRIEVANCE (Preview) i WAS TREATED IN A RUDE MANNER BY ONE OF MY COLLEQUES. VERBAL MISUSE FROM A COLLEQUE WHO IS NOT A MANAGER IN HIS POSITION. HE WAS APPOINTED TO ASSIST ALL OF US IN THE OFFICE.. KLINDLY ADVISE ON THIS BEHAVIOUR PLEASE.	Anonymous	1	649	Jun 20, 2018 by LABOUR PROTECT
	Overtime - take time off (Preview) 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...	Anonymous	1	594	Jun 20, 2018 by LABOUR PROTECT
	Decrease In salary. (Preview) 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...	Anonymous	1	640	Jun 20, 2018 by Anonymous
	deceased employer (Preview) 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.	Anonymous	1	584	Jun 20, 2018 by LABOUR PROTECT
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