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contracts and constraints
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I am an EFL teacher (teaching english as a foreign language) and have been working for a school in England for 6 months. However, I have not been teaching - I am a glorified admin assistant but was made to sign a contract saying I would not be able to do the same job within a 50 mile radius if I left. I have been...
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i have been retrenched
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i have been retrenched and opted not to work the notice period of 4 weeks..... How long must I wait for my severance pay? And they have also not handed me my UI-19 so I can't start the UIF process. Any and all assistance would be very much appreciated.
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payment not received
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I submitted my claim about a month and it was my last uif payment. An official told me that the money will deposited into my account after seven days. Until today i have not yet received the money. What do i do?
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Hearing and Coaching session
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Good Day I am an eployee at college, deal with client service of students. Recently me and my colleagues were invited for the session as stated above. I am not sure if its a hearing or discussion session. My concern is, me and my colleague we have been targeted for personal reasons as incompetent and not...
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Non-payment of Commission
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I work in the recruitment industry. A little over 2 years ago, I placed 3 executive level contractors with a major, global company through another agency which has a preferred supplier agreement in place with the "employer". These contracts yield monthly income for my employer which...
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Disciplinary issues
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Ok lets start i already have a final written warning on my file which has been on there for 2 years expires in June 2013. I will explain a little about the type of job i do, i am not office based i go to the office each morning to get items i may need during the day, i have an area to cover which i manage myself i boo...
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HR Manager has no qualifications
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Recently I was pulled into a diciplinary hearing for lack of performance, but I was never given any verbal warnings or anything of the sort before. I also know for a fact, as does everyone in the company I am working for, that the supposed HR manager, who is also the CEO's PA, has no qualifications for th...
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Writ of execution with sherrif
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The same day the registrar of the labour court signed the writ and I took it to the sherrif my ex employer's lawyer applied for a motion to set the award aside. This is exactly 6 weeks after the award was handed down. The 1st respondent is the CCMA, the 2nd the commisioner and me the 3rd. I got the email from t...
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Retrenchment pay out
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I have been retrenched and my last working day is on friday however the company only wants to pay me my package at the end of May, is this the correct way of finalising the process?
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Dismissal of employee before full term of probation period (due to poor performance) HELP PLEASE!
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Employee was hired during an extremely heavy work period - and has been found to repeatedly produce inadequate work, even through mentoring and assitance. (poor performance) Do I have to keep them the full 3 months probation and then only review or can they be dismissed? (with the correct, fair proc...
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Working conditions - hours per day
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My husband is a butchery mnanger, who earns over 120 000.00 pa he has been told by his boss that he has to work 11 hours a day 7am - 6pm with either 1 afternoon off a week or 1 weekend off a month. Can you please advise whether this is lawful of not and what the maximum hours of work per week is. Thanks Veroni...
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Fixed term contract terminated for no reason
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I need some advice regarding the termination (at the end of the term) of my five year fixed term contract. My employer refused to renew my five year contract without giving me reasons other than the term had come to an end. My job still exists, was never linked to any specific task completion and there w...
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Extension of Probation period
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Good day, I was offered a permanent posistion on the 1st of Jan 2013. In Letter of Employment it states that I have a 3 month probation period. After 16 April 2013 (probation over) my boss asked me to extend my probation period to another 3 months as he felt I was not performing. Can this be done? To ext...
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Employers get away with unfair dismissals
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From my experience with two unfair dismissal cases, it seems that employers get away with treating employees unfairly. Their attitude seems to be that of pwerful bullies with deep pockets. Processes are not followed and there are no consequences. I was unfairly dismissed without any process bei...
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Staff Policy
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I work for a NPO. In the staff policy it states that the pensionable age is 60 but staff may, at the discretion of the Management and Trustees, work past the age of 60 should this be beneficial to both the staff member and the organisation. This would be done on a contract basis and reviewed annually. This...
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Thank you!
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Thank you, to Labour Protect for assisting me in getting my case to Con, I would not have had the nerve to take this on, on my own. Great advice, great attorney. Case due to be heard at CCMA in May.
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final writen warning without any evidence
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can my company issue me with a final written warning without any evidence. a department manager says i swore at him but as no wittness to his case. what can i do
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demotion from registry clerk to security officer
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our documents are audited by the audit committee of a college every quater, the beginning of April the audit was done , and our was called to come to this meeting to get the Audit Report. The Board of directors told me everything was wrong. The CEO accused me of sleeping with my wife, the same bed, the same...
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voluntary termination of employment
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hi,I was attempting to do a section 28 trade test,which required me to obtain a particular letter from my employer who in turn offered me a voluntary termination of employment in exchange for this letter .I have now made the decision to accept for I need to be qualified in my trade in order to pursue a dec...
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Constantly blamed for bosses debt problems
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I unfortunately work for a company where my boss would rather attend to his needs before paying his taxes and other outstanding accounts. I am constantly reminded about his debt and that I can not recieved any form of insentive because of it. I use my car for business purposes without being reimbursed...
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Employer wants to pass VAT costs on to me
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I work inthe recruitment sector. I earn a small basic salary and I am dependent on commission to make a reasonable living. I recently made a shared placement with another agency - a sole practitioner who does not pay VAT. My employer took the brief from the agency and has, in fact, a longstanding rel...
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Annual Leave - Retrenchment
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Good day, perhaps you can assist me. My problems exists due to my boss who wants to sell up and leave back for his home country Germany. He's blaming it on financial problems with the company but there are only two staff members running accounting services (me and one other) whose salary comes to under R...
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Sex @ the office
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Is having sex @ the office against the law if so which act should i look as i found my colleque having sex in the toilet that we all use
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Unauthorised salary deduction
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I was verbally dismissed by my Director on the 24th of April 2012. I wrote a letter to employer through my legal adviser same day requestiing a letter and the reosons for dismissal. The employer did not respond untill i decided to refer the matter to bargaining council for concilliation. Two days aft...
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Salary dispute
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I am an accounts clerk, but over the past year my duties have increased and i am doing the duties of a bookkeeper, i asked my boss for an increase, he consulted a recruitement agency to check if my salary is market related, as accounts clerk yes my salary is market related, but he refuses to see the extra du...
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Maternity loan payback
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My company paid 2 months of my salary while on maternity leave, yet they have a policy that the loan is repayable if you resign within a year from returning from maternity leave. However the company is currently busy retrenching staff and i have therefore decided to find a new job. If i resign under t...
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Retirement & UIF
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Am I entitled to claim UIF if I retire to tide me over until my government pension kicks in?
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Ex-employer claiming reimbursement of overpaid medical aid instalments
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My ex-employer had been paying medical instalments for months after I had left the company. I was not made aware that they would be doing this before I left their employement, and I was not made aware that they were doing this until many months into my new employment, at which point I, I'm sure, they fina...
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Personality clashes with manager
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Hi, About 8 months ago a young lady in our office was promoted to oversee our division as we are not performing well. She does not know out market, however has made across the board statements that we (2 sales staff in SA) are not competent. We are much older than her, have been in the business for many y...
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Overtime for sundays and public holidays
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I have a question about the interpretation of the BCEA Rule on payment for work on sundays.What would be considered Ordinarily. Our company operates from Monday to Friday 8-6 and Saturday & Sunday and Public holidays 9am - 5pm.We rotate the weekends and public holidays amongst the members of th...
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