Join us for a morning session to discuss everything that developed and clarified in labour law and practice during 2026, with practical advice from labour expert Andrew Levy on how to deal with it in your workplace.
| Format: Zoom Virtual Seminar | Level: All levels | Prerequisite: None |
Who should attend
Designed for payroll and administration personnel, as well as management, HR and IR professionals who need to keep up with important trends in the current labour market.
Learning Outcomes
- Latest developments, made practical: The key 2026 cases from the Constitutional and Labour Courts downwards, distilled into what every HR/IR practitioner, manager and payroll professional needs to know, with answers you can put to immediate use.
- Fair Pay and recruitment: What the Fair Pay Bill means for recruitment and promotion, and why equal work does not always mean equal pay.
- Foreign workers: The proposed Manpower Services Bill, with fines starting at R100,000, and clarity on employing foreign workers.
- Probation: How to make probation work for you, what your contracts need, and the pitfalls to avoid.
- Protected Disclosure Act: How employees use the Act to halt or thwart disciplinary proceedings, and how to respond.
- AI in the workplace: What a staff AI policy should contain to protect you and handle abuse, and the likely impact of AI on HR and payroll.
- Discipline and dismissal: The evidence that will lose your case at the CCMA, the dangers of zero-tolerance policies, delayed hearings, sick leave lies, and whether a competitor interview is a dismissible offence.
- Leave, pay and employee status: Parental leave explained, how employees use s73A of the BCEA for underpayment claims, and the new definitions of employee.
- CCMA vs the Courts: The rising tension between the CCMA and the Courts, and why the nuances of events matter.
Question time
Ask questions and gain additional insights from interacting with other delegates. You’ll leave with a clear picture of what to expect on all fronts and practical guidance to act quickly and decisively when situations arise.
Your presenter
Andrew Levy has been South Africa’s leading labour resource for over 40 years and is a highly regarded author and labour commentator, known for making learning interesting and fun.
