Access to a team of Lawyers
Extensive experience in Regulatory Compliance
Effective management of Labour and Employment issues
We provide training in applying discipline consistently
Appear on your behalf at external forums e.g. CCMA
Labour Law
South African Labour and Employment laws are continuously expanding, making processes increasingly intricate. As a result, line managers and HR professionals struggle to keep up with legislation, ultimately risking the organisation’s assets, relationships, and reputation.
Failure to identify labour-related risks can expose your business to costly and complex legal disputes and compliance procedures, ultimately damaging your organisation’s sustainability.
Inlexso gives you access to a team of lawyers with extensive experience in employee relations, collective bargaining, regulatory compliance and effective labour and employee benefits management. We provide disciplinary and incapacity process training amongst other things and appear at external forums on your behalf, including CCMA hearings.
Our services include the following aspects:
- Employment contract, retention, restraint of trade, and employment equity drafting and vetting
- Management shares and other incentive schemes
- Outsourcing and labour broking
- Expatriate and foreign national advisory
- Discipline, grievance, harassment, and victimisation
- Individual and collective dispute resolution at CCMA, Bargaining Council, and Labour Court level
- Training programmes (disciplinary code and incapacity, sexual harassment, employment equity and retrenchment)
- Collective bargaining (recognition agreements, wage negotiations, business restructuring, dispute procedures)
- Strike management
- Mergers and acquisitions, integrations, transfers, workplace change, outsourcing
- Industry Charters and BBEE compliance (HR-level)
- Employment benefits
- Initiating and chairing disciplinary inquiries
Our Experience
Our team of lawyers specializes in individual and collective labour law and has extensive experience in a broad range of industries. Some practical examples of matters that we have been and are involved with are:
- Minerals Council labour law amendment task team advising BUSA on labour law changes
- Various sec 197 transfers due to mergers and acquisitions between employers affecting several thousand employees on each occasion
- Part of negotiating team of several employers during wage negotiations with unions like NUMSA, NUM, NEHAWU and SATAWU
- Involved in establishment of bargaining councils
- Retrenchments and redeployment affecting tens of thousands of employees