DISMISSAL: OPERATIONAL RETRENCHMENT

Back to Case Studies In the previous Newsletters we spoke about the dismissal on grounds of the employee’s conduct and dismissal due to incapacity. Today I want to look at the dismissal of an employee on grounds of “operational requirements”, commonly known as...

Dismissal: Incapacity

Back to Case Studies In the previous Newsletter we spoke about the dismissal on grounds of the employee’s conduct. Today I want to look at the dismissal of an employee on grounds of “incapacity”. Capacity refers to the employee’s ability to perform his / her work...

DISCIPLINARY ACTION

Back to Case Studies One often hears people say, “it does not help to take disciplinary action against staff who do not conform to the Company rules as they will go to the CCMA where the hearing will be overturned.” It is true that many hearings are overturned by the...

Mediate: The Right Way

Back to Case Studies A lady from a countryside village felt that she was the subject of medical negligence. She approached a lawyer in the “big city”. Some six month after the procedure was performed, the medical practitioner was served papers for a claim of R 2 mil...

General Newsletter

Wilbrink and Associates was founded in 1990 and registered as a Closed Corporation in 1993. The Company has been working in the industrial / technical sphere. Frans Wilbrink, the managing member, is a graduate from the University of Natal. He completed his post...

Life During / After Covid-19

The COVID-19 lockdown has brought many new challenges to all businesses across the world, whether small or large. One of them is that many staff members now work from home. This resulted in an increase in the use of technology. The challenges for small businesses are...