A refusal to work overtime: what do you need to know?

Can you refuse to work overtime? If so, can you be dismissed for refusing to work overtime? Also, can a tacit agreement become enforceable to compel an employee to stay and work overtime? These are all questions that were posed and answered in the recent Labour Court judgment of AMCU obo Mkhonto and Others v Commission […]

Healthy minds, healthier remote workers

It’s a strange new world that we’re living in, one in which the digitalisation of the traditional office is happening at a rapid rate. Many businesses are reaping the benefits of remote work in a society where going into the office no longer seems necessary (not to mention that it could present an array of health […]

How to make the most of your work-from-home experiment

Whenever humanity faces a problem as tremendous as a global pandemic, it unequivocally necessitates societal change. In a pandemic, these changes are often tangible as they disrupt the very norms of our daily existence and activities. If necessity really is the mother of invention, we must utilise the time that we have to experiment with these changes in […]