Labour Law Rules! (Paperback) - M. McGregor

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Labour Law Rules! provides a highly accessible text on labour, equity, social security and skills development laws. It discusses these laws against a background of the country supporting the principle of ‘decent work’, high unemployment, the insufficient creation of sustainable and decent jobs, income inequality, all exacerbated by an increase in atypical work, skills shortages, as well as insufficient enforcement of laws.

The book is aimed principally at students who engage with labour law – a compulsory subject for LLB students, and increasingly so for BCom students at South African universities – for the first time during their studies. In addition, IR and HR practitioners, line managers, supervisors and union officials will all find the book useful.

Broadly, the contents cover the individual employment relationship in linear fashion from the time the contract of employment is concluded (and sometimes even earlier), through the course of the relationship during which an employee’s conditions of employment must comply with minimum terms within a framework of ‘regulated flexibility’, and during which an employee is protected against unfair labour practices and unfair discrimination, up to the termination of employment when an employee is protected against unfair dismissal.

Terminating the contract of employment for reasons other than dismissal such as resignation and retirement are also discussed. The rules of collective bargaining, a different scenario with different rules from the individual employment relationship, are also explained and interpreted.

The rules of social security laws are explained briefly by following the three themes of these laws, namely to prevent workplace injuries, to compensate injured or ill workers and to integrate them back into the workplace.

The text reflects recent statutory and other developments, and current debates. Cases and other examples are used to explain legal principles and the keen reader is provided with additional recommended reading.