If the costs of the SABC’s legal are included, the amount Tebele and Ditlhakanyane are liable for could be astronomical.
The SABC has decided not to appeal the Labour Court’s order that the state broadcaster reinstate four journalists it fired.
The state broadcaster is set to appeal the court order that it reverse its controversial axing of four journalists.
The Labour Court has ruled that the SABC journalists are not liable for the costs of appealing their dismissals.
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SABC protest policy conflicted with journalists’ ethics says legal counsel for the #SABC8.
The journalists, who earlier launched an urgent Constitutional Court application over their suspensions, will also seek payment for their legal fees.
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South African Airways has announced that after reaching an out of court settlement, Monwabisi Kalawe will resign as chief executive and a director.
Shadrack Sibiya obtained an interdict against his suspension as the head of the Gauteng Hawks, but there are more details to come about the charges.
Suspended deputy commissioner Ivan Pillay takes legal action against Sars on the grounds that proper procedures had not been followed.
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Suspended e.tv head Marcel Golding is expected to hear Monday if his bid to overturn his suspension has been successful.
The Labour Court has handed down a final order preventing Amcu, a minority union on the gold mines, from embarking on a strike.
Employers on the platinum belt are committed to meeting again with a labour court judge in a bid to end the protracted wage strike.
The National Union of Mineworkers says it is concerned by the economic impact of the lengthy platinum sector wage dispute.
Some say the decision by a judge to take the labour deadlock back to mediation with her as mediator is "highly unusual".
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The Labour Court has postponed a case regarding Amcu’s planned strike in the gold sector to March 14.
The Labour Court in Johannesburg has ruled that labour department employees do not have to work at their uninhabitable inner city offices.
The ruling that it is unfair to use only national demographics to implement affirmative action was a victory for equality, the Foundation said.
Good governance has been kicked to the kerb as municipal squabbles clog up the courts, writes Phillip de Wet.
An increasing number of workers have turned to the law to solve disputes with their employers.
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/ 19 September 2011
A court ruling in favour of Eskom in a wage dispute shows it is aligned with the interests of big capital, the World Federation of Trade Unions says.
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/ 19 September 2011
The Labour Court has turned down an urgent application by NUM to stop Eskom from implementing a 7% unilateral wage increase.
The South African Local Government Association will approach the Labour Court in Johannesburg on Tuesday to halt a countrywide municipal strike.
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/ 7 September 2009
A court on Monday dismissed an application by the South African Revenue Service (Sars) for an urgent interdict against strike action by its workers.
The Labour Court in Johannesburg granted an interdict against the doctors on strike in Gauteng, the provincial health department said on Saturday.
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/ 16 October 2008
The Labour Relations Act was drafted to recognise the labour rights of illegal immigrants as well, the Judicial Service Commission heard on Thursday.
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/ 11 October 2008
The Labour Court has granted Woolworths an interdict after the South African Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers’ Union breached picketing rules.
Woman sacked for disobeying brothel owner has no protection from labour law, says judge.
Springbok World Cup lock Bakkies Botha has called the Blue Bulls ”tyrannical and autocratic” in court papers presented to the Labour Court this week. Botha filed the court papers in a bid to have his contracts with SA Rugby and the Bulls be declared null and void.
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/ 28 November 2007
A sacked Transnet human resources manager who took her case all the way to the Constitutional Court will have to start again by seeking arbitration, the court ruled on Wednesday. Petronella Chirwa worked as a human resources manager for the Transnet pension-fund business unit.
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/ 21 November 2007
A number of kulula.com crew members went on a tongue-in-cheek swimming outing on Wednesday. The outing was an ”act of defiance against the bizarre claim by the Labour Department that kulula.com doesn’t hire crew who cannot swim”, said Comair spokesperson Glenda Zvenyika.
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/ 18 November 2007
Comair will not be bullied by an inefficient and ineffective government department, the company said on Sunday. It was responding to accusations by the Department of Labour that the company did not hire black people. Comair’s joint CEO Erik Venter said: ”These allegations are not only blatantly false but also defamatory.”
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/ 15 November 2007
Trade union Solidarity has served court papers on South African Airways Technical (SAAT) division to stop its retrenchment process on the grounds that it is procedurally unfair. Last week SAA announced that it had support from trade unions on restructuring plans that would lift the airline out of massive financial losses.