E-hailing and Employment Rights: The Case for an Employment Relationship Between Uber and its Drivers in South Africa

“Since the end of apartheid, South African freedom fighters have worked to remedy the former regime’s legacy of discrimination and violence. Their efforts have afforded South Africans access to a …

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No access to the right to strike for workers at Heineken Sedibeng

The experiences of workers at Heineken Sedibeng illustrate how labour broker workers are excluded from collective bargaining and that going on a protected strike is difficult. What does this mean …

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Court decision regarding duty of fair representation, provision of trade union office (Case number 2017Da218642)

This is a court decision regarding duty of the employer to provide trade union office not only to the representative bargaining labor union but also to other labor union. (English) https://library.scourt.go.kr/SCLIB_data/decision/50-2017Da218642_TraUniOff_hs.htm …

Constitutional Court ruling on labour brokers a victory for the working poor

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2018-07-27-constitutional-court-ruling-on-labour-brokers-a-victory-for-the-working-poor

South Africa: Assign Services (Pty) Limited v National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa and Others (CCT194/17) [2018] ZACC 22; [2018] 9 BLLR 837 (CC); (2018) 39 ILJ 1911 (CC); 2018 (5) SA 323 (CC); 2018 (11) BCLR 1309 (CC) (26 July 2018)

The Constitutional Court of South Africa ruled in favor of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa that an employee who earns less than the threshold of R205,000 per …

Disability Discrimination in the South African Workplace: The Case of Infertility

Compared with conventional parent employees, infertile employees who use surrogacy or adoption do not have the same rights under South African current laws and this disparity may, in fact, be unfair …

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Examining Employment Discrimination in South Africa, 1997-2016

This is a study that examines racial and gender employment discrimination in 1997-2016 in South Africa. This study shows that racial and gender employment discrimination are still serious issues. It …

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South Africa: Food Delivery Men Say They’re Exploited

Many immigrant workers in South Africa who work for food delivery companies as independent contractors say they are exploited. They say they have no insurance protection, earn little but work …

South Africa: September and Others v CMI Business Enterprise CC [(CCT279/16) [2018] ZACC 4; 2018 (4) BCLR 483 (CC); (2018) 39 ILJ 987 (CC); [2018] 5 BLLR 431 (CC) (27 February 2018)]

South Africa: Three employees and their employer failed to reach a conciliation on the issue of racial discrimination at the Commission for Conciliation Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA), which is an …

Uber South Africa Technological Services (Pty) Ltd vs NUPSAW, SATAWU et al

The Labour Court of South Africa, Cape Town, held on review that the parties had failed to discharge the onus to establish that they were employees of Uber SA. The …