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What if the employee working from home, does not work at home?

08 February 2022

If your business has employees working from home, you may be concerned about whether your employees are in fact working... their required hours, or if they may instead be “stealing time” from your business. Should companies merely accept this as the new world of work due to the pandemic, or can a company act against such employees?

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Increase in minimum wages for farm and domestic workers

20 May 2021

I’m a farm owner and was wondering what the new minimum wages announced by Government will mean for my farming... business?

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Service provider or labour broker?

10 November 2020

Our company wants to help out one of our oldest clients by allowing some of our labourers to work for... a few months for the client on a project at the client’s site. The client has had to layoff staff during Covid-19 and we would temporarily help him out with our labourers. We would continue to pay our staff with the client paying us a service fee for the labourers and other support services. Our human resources manager however is concerned that we could be seen as labour brokers should we move forward with this arrangement. Would this be the case?

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Tax incentives for employing youth in your business

13 May 2019

I have a young business that is developing well. But I need to appoint more staff. I’ve heard that there... are tax incentives for employing youth. How do these work?

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When can I give a final written warning?

13 May 2019

I have an employee who posted very derogatory comments on Facebook about his manager, calling him lazy and stupid. I... immediately arranged for a final written warning to be issued to the employee. However, the employee refuses to sign the warning and claims that he has been treated unfairly as he should have received a first warning before being given a final warning. Have we made a mistake in giving him a final warning?

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New developments with precautionary suspensions

11 April 2019

I have a suspicion that one of my branch managers is busy stealing stock and cooking the books. The numbers... just don’t add up. I want to suspend him to allow a full investigation to be done, but don’t want to give him a heads-up so he can hide evidence. Can I suspend him immediately without giving him a chance to provide reasons so I can ensure that he leaves the premises? Please advise.

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