More and more businesses are expanding into a virtual world, which has advantages for employers and employees alike, but challenges and risks too...
Rosalind Davey 7 Mar 2019
In the recent case of Milnerton Estates Limited v CSARS, the Supreme Court of Appeal had to decide whether to include the purchase price in a property developer's 2013 year of assessment...
Graeme Palmer 25 Feb 2019
How times have changed. Social media marketing has evolved from being a bit of fun on the side to an absolute must-have for all businesses that want to remain relevant. Social media isn't just fun and games, though: it gives you access to personal information like never before. The big question is how the rules of PoPI apply when using social media for marketing and client service platforms...
linda graham 11 Feb 2019
As you may have noted in recent media reports, the President of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, signed the new national minimum wage statute into law effective from 1 January 2019...
Gideon Gerber, SERR Synergy 22 Jan 2019
The global biometrics market is growing rapidly. In fact, research indicates that the global market is growing a compounded growth rate of 22.9%...
Pine Pienaar 15 Jan 2019
The 2019 election year brings the normal risk of some tax populist decisions, including much higher social grants. This will add to the fiscus' pressure, desperate for additional tax revenues...
Jerry Botha 10 Jan 2019
The National Minimum Wage Act came into effect on 1 January 2019, and provides for, amongst others, a national minimum wage; the establishment of a National Minimum Wage Commission...
Jacques van Wyk 9 Jan 2019
The South African financial sector has been waiting with bated breath for South Africa's financial regulators to map the way forward and we expect this guidance to be forthcoming early in 2019...
David Geral 9 Jan 2019
Where an employer or employee fails to comply with a court order, does such failure constitute contempt of court...?
Jacques van Wyk 8 Jan 2019
Large corporates and multinationals are keeping a close eye on developments from the Department of Home Affairs. 2019 promises a number of changes in the Immigration Act which will impact the way business can attract and retain expat resources...
Marisa Jacobs 8 Jan 2019
In this age of overflowing inboxes, diaries filled with meetings sandwiched between conference calls and yet another round of performance assessments, managing time and focus requires Herculean effort...
Johan Botes 7 Jan 2019
As we head into the holiday season, any number of retail and hospitality employees will be expected to work overtime during this period. So what should they, as well as HR, know about their legal rights in this regard...?
Shan Radcliffe 23 Nov 2018
Protection of employment during business transfers is an integral piece in the employment law legal puzzle in many jurisdictions around the world...
Johan Botes 21 Nov 2018
MyImprint, a tech startup that provides easy access to criminal record and identity verifications, is the first of its kind to innovate a digital consent verification system in South Africa...
Evan-Lee Courie 12 Nov 2018
To err is human and mistakes are sometimes made on tax invoices. The draft Administration Laws Amendment Bill, 2018 proposes the inclusion of a new section 20(1B) dealing with errors to tax invoices...
Graeme Palmer 23 Oct 2018
Do employees automatically transfer from an old service provider to a new service provider when the client replaces the one with the other...?
Johan Botes 4 Oct 2018
Legal information platform Baobob.law has been named winner of the Southern African leg of the Hague Institute for Innovation of Law (HiiL) Innovating Justice Challenge...
Tom Jackson 17 Sep 2018
Is an employer bound by its own changes to its leave policy? What happens when the employer disputes whether the changes were ever implemented, and there is no witness to gainsay claims of what happened...
Johan Botes 17 Sep 2018
While there has been much focus in the property media on how homeowners can save costs as the fees for basic services continue to rise, sectional title property owners had more added to their monthly levies...
Chris Renecle 12 Sep 2018
In the case of Media Workers' Association of South Africa obo Hoohlo and others v SABC, the CCMA had to consider whether the employees were fairly dismissed for gross insubordination...
Jacques van Wyk 11 Sep 2018
Economist, Dr Roelof Botha is quite adamant that South Africa is not in a recession despite what Stats SA said...
Nicci Botha 10 Sep 2018
There is no doubt that there is great concern about land reform amongst ordinary South Africans and especially property owners and buyers. At the same time, there is a huge amount of noise in the media and public discourse around this, often sending mixed messages...
Stuart Manning 4 Sep 2018
The Catzavelos hate speech case prompted Marcus 'The Maltese Falcon' Brewster to investigate whether hate crimes exist on the Maltese islands and his findings may surprise you...
Marcus ‘The Maltese Falcon’ Brewster 31 Aug 2018
Tender fraud and corruption are probably endemic throughout the world but a case has recently been unearthed in Malta that is so diabolically clever, so deviously contrived that it makes the various SAA, SABC, SANRAL and other cadre-deployment shenanigans seem blunt and clunky in comparison...
Marcus ‘The Maltese Falcon’ Brewster 24 Aug 2018
SARS released a Binding General Ruling on 25 July 2018 on the temporary letting of residential dwellings by developers, principally to provide clarity of the cessation of section 18B of the Value Added Tax Act, 1991...
Graeme Palmer 24 Aug 2018
The Hague Institute for Innovation of Law (HiiL) has announced the Southern African finalists for its annual Innovating Justice Challenge...
Tom Jackson 18 Jul 2018
Should marijuana use be legalised, there are a number of concerns and questions around regulation and control that need to be addressed to ensure the safety of both users and non-users...
Rhys Evans 5 Jul 2018
There are periods of limitations for issuing assessments which are set out in section 99 of the Tax Administration Act 28 of 2011 ("TAA")...
Graeme Palmer 27 Jun 2018
For certain taxpayers, a tax clearance certificate is of utmost importance in ensuring that it is able to receive payment and to tender for new services...
Joon Chong, Webber Wentzel 21 Jun 2018
Social media is an excellent marketing tool, but in the wrong hands, it can also be severely damaging...
linda graham 20 Jun 2018
