CCMA processes, unfair dismissal, retrenchment, severance and workplace rights in South Africa — employee and employer guides by Onah Attorneys’ labour team.
By Onah Attorneys Inc • Updated July 2026 • Legal information, not a substitute for advice on your specific matter. You signed it on day one without reading; now the dream offer sits across town and the old employer waves…
By Onah Attorneys Inc • Updated July 2026 • Legal information, not a substitute for advice on your specific matter. You paid in every month — getting it back out is the fight. UIF covers unemployment, maternity, illness, adoption and…
By Onah Attorneys Inc • Updated July 2026 • Legal information, not a substitute for advice on your specific matter. The eternal three-month contract, renewed thirty times, ended the week someone asks for leave — the fixed-term game is old,…
By Onah Attorneys Inc • Updated July 2026 • Legal information, not a substitute for advice on your specific matter. Overtime law is blunt: over the threshold you negotiate, under it the BCEA dictates — 1.5x weekdays, 2x Sundays, capped…
By Onah Attorneys Inc • Updated July 2026 • Legal information, not a substitute for advice on your specific matter. Four months’ leave, a job held open, absolute dismissal protection — maternity rights in South Africa are strong and routinely…
By Onah Attorneys Inc • Updated July 2026 • Legal information, not a substitute for advice on your specific matter. The 2022 Code of Good Practice redefined workplace harassment broadly — sexual harassment, bullying, racial abuse, mobbing, even persistent humiliation…
By Onah Attorneys Inc • Updated July 2026 • Legal information, not a substitute for advice on your specific matter. South Africa’s labour-broker (TES) workforce lives in engineered precarity — ‘the client just ended the assignment’ as a dismissal that…
By Onah Attorneys Inc • Updated July 2026 • Legal information, not a substitute for advice on your specific matter. The Friday-afternoon suspension letter — ‘pending investigation’ — is designed to feel like guilt. It isn’t. Suspension is a holding…
By Onah Attorneys Inc • Updated July 2026 • Legal information, not a substitute for advice on your specific matter. Resigning sounds simple until the employer ‘rejects’ it, threatens to withhold your pay, or you need to leave tomorrow and…
By Onah Attorneys Inc • Updated July 2026 • Legal information, not a substitute for advice on your specific matter. Few court orders touch ordinary life like an emoluments attachment order — the ‘garnishee’ that intercepts your salary at the…
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