The Protection of State Information Bill, also known as the "secrecy bill", awaits President Jacob Zuma's signature before it becomes law.

It sometimes makes sense for companies to allow certain employees to continue working after the agreed or normal retirement age. The question is this: How does one go about terminating employment during that period?

SA’s labour relations system is under pressure. Industrial action is increasingly marred by violence while there are several legal challenges to the collective bargaining arrangement.

Given employers’ need for efficiency in producing goods or providing services, the question is to what extent the religious beliefs and practices of employees have to be accommodated. What guiding principles have the courts have provided?

If an employee is absent due to illness for a brief period (no more than 2 days), may the employer insist on a medical certificate?

In what some are calling "the patent trial of the century," a federal grand jury in California last week decided in favour of Apple in a patent infringement lawsuit against Samsung.

Finally we have clarity about the nature of the forthcoming amendments to the LRA and BCEA.

When a trade union approaches an employer with the news that its employees have joined the union, one can understand that some employers might experience a sense of betrayal. But is it as bad as it seems?

There is a deep feeling among citizens that the judicial system has failed and is failing them.

Just as we think that the law pertaining to fixed term contracts has settled, something changes.