Posts Tagged ‘Q&A’
Ridiculous Working Conditions »
Question: 1. We are a construction company that work and stay on site we only go home 1 weekend a months is that ok? 2. My team get R100 per week for food and then they take the money of there salaries again? 3. The guys sleep on the floor without any mattresses that company don't supply any sleeping facility for my team? Please advice me if this [...]
Entitled to be Appointed »
Question: Is an employee who has acted in a position above his grade for a lengthy period automatically entitled to be appointed to that position when the company decides to fill it permanently? If not, under what circumstances might failure to appoint him constitute an unfair labour practice? (more...)
Unilateral Changes in the Terms and Conditions of »
Question: Your company can no longer afford to pay car allowances to its junior managerial employees, and wishes to withdraw them. Could this constitute an unfair labour practice? (more...)
Company Warnings »
Question: A company wants to issue a warning for not reaching target but wants to add in two other incidents that happened two weeks ago.how long after a incident can you issue a warning? And can you combine other incidents. (more...)
Company Gone Bankrupt »
Question: What are my rights if I do not get paid my salary because there is not enough money in the company account? (more...)
Unpaid Leave Advice »
Question: Good afternoon Craig I really hope you have a simply answer for me. During the month of June I took the afternoon of Friday, 19 June and Saturday morning, 20 June unpaid leave - this amounts to 10.5 hours. Instead of showing it as a deduction my employer deducts it from my basic salary, minimizing my salary amount, not showing the unpaid [...]
Unfair Labour Practice »
Question: How can employee stand up for their rights in a case whereby Management / the manager is not fair based on the following points: 1. Some staff members will be released of duty at 13:00 where as their knock off time is 16:00 and the remaining staff 90 % of the time being non white staff will be let of @ 15 : 00 but the people that [...]
Employee Discrimination »
Question: Is it discrimination when an employee gives urine screens to a certin rank of employees? (more...)
Over Time »
Question: Is overtime calculated on a daily basis. We have a shop open 12 hrs a day and 9 hrs on sat. can the 45 hrs a week be divided into shifts of different length so no overtime is due. Yet having the staff availible when necessary. (more...)
Severance Pay… »
Question: I worked for company A for 20 years, company B acquired company A and I have worked for them the last 6 years. Now I have 26 years employment and am facing a lay off. The severance package for company B is one week’s salary for every year worked. Shouldn’t I expect to get 26 weeks of severance from company B even if I have to sue to [...]
Non Payment of Salary »
Question: My daughter works for a bookkeeping company in Rustenburg and due to the economic crunch has not been paid since the end of March. This is now the third month that she has not received her salary. She was told via an SMS to either stay at home or resign at te beginning of April, was then asked to go back to work and promised payment of [...]
Racism in the Workplace »
Question: I'm a white woman with a black male boss. Everytime I try to organize promotions at work or something to generate business in our office he has some sort of problem and tries his best to put a pole in the works. He always has a problem with me and my collegues both black and white have also started picking this up and were the first to [...]
Termination »
Question: I've been offered a fixed term contract for 6 months on a construction project. The following paragraphs are included in my new contract under "Termination". 2. Paragraphs 1 and 2 are OK, but I am confused by paragraph 3. According to the manager, this is to protect the company if the client should terminate the project. I find this [...]
Unfair Labour Practice »
Question: Is it within the law to let employees apply for their jobs when a new structure is introduced in a single department when the company is not in a process of retrenchments. What happens to those who are not successful in the interviews for the new positions? There are no retrenchments in the entire company and no reason was given as to [...]
Working Hours Half Day »
Question: my wife started working as a receptionist at a doctors room as a halfday worker. I would like to know what hours she is suppose to work per week/month. she is currently working from 8:00 till 13:30 (5,5 hours) a day. She must now also work every second saturday from 8:00 to 12:00. She does not receive any extra or overtime payment. I am [...]