EMPLOYMENT LAW
PUBLIC WORKSHOPS
PUBLIC WORKSHOPS 2019
Negotiations
Getting the deal done! (employment & commercial )
- Identifying content, process and relationship issues (CPR)
- Positional and interest-based bargaining
- Common errors made during negotiations
- Defining success in negotiation
- Preparation for negotiation: the seven elements of preparation
- Interacting with the other side: the five phases of negotiation
- Characteristics of a good negotiator
- Power of negotiation
- Obstacles and complicating factors
- Becoming a better negotiator
- Dealing with difficult people (understanding why you find it more challenging to deal with certain people)
Chairing and Initiating hearings
A hands-on approach
- Substantive fairness guidelines: understanding guilt and sanction
- Procedural fairness - the role of the initiator and chairperson
- How to gather facts and information - the investigation
- Preparing for and initiating a disciplinary hearing
- Strategising the case
- Preparing an opening and closing statement
- Understanding balance of probabilities
- How to examine and cross examine
- Rules of evidence - dealing with evidence and admissibility
- The roadmap for conducting a hearing successfully: the 12 steps
- Dealing with various obstacles at the hearing: What may go wrong and what are the challenges?
- Deciding on the balance of probabilities
- Determining sanction
- Alternatives to dismissal
Date: 31 October 2019
Price: R1 500 excl. VAT (includes 3 resources)
Duration: 1 Day
Facilitator: Ulrich Stander
Date: 6, 7 November 2019
Price: R2 200 excl. VAT (includes comprehensive manual)
Duration: 2 Days
Facilitators: WP Moolman, Ulrich Stander
Gender diversity in the workplace
The next wave
- LGBTQ inclusive workplaces: what do these workplaces look like?
- Understanding substantive diversity
- Understanding and identifying unconscious bias:
- confirmatory bias
- affinity bias
- social comparison bias
- Understanding the differences:
- gender
- sexual orientation
- gender identity
- gender non-confirming
- LBGTQ
- bisexual
- Identify workplace barriers related to gender
- Confirmatory bias
- Affinity bias
- Social comparison bias
- Inclusive language and vocabulary: examples
- Common myths related to gender identity
Case law update
The latest on some challenging topics
- Cannabis – approaches to testing and levels: “under the influence”
- Derivative misconduct – failure or refusal to disclose knowledge of misconduct during a strike
- A union organising in an industry not covered in its scope of registration
- Is a strike unprotected if a union failed to hold a secret ballot?
- Is dismissal possible after resignation?
- Picketing – dismissing employees for a breach of picketing rules
- Fixed-term contracts and S198B – the latest
- Automatic unfair dismissal – refusal to agree to a change to terms of conditions of employment
- Misconduct – racism, unauthorised absence, assault, dishonesty, insubordination, negligence, misrepresentation, breach of fiduciary duties and breach of safety rules
- Impossibility of performance – a valid ground for dismissal?
Date: 13 November 2019
Price: R1 200 excl. VAT (includes handout)
Duration: 1/2 day
Facilitator: Ulrich Stander
Date: 20 November 2019
Price: R1 200 excl. VAT (includes handout)
Duration: 1/2 day
Facilitator: WP Moolman
Negotiations
Getting the deal done! (employment & commercial )
- Identifying content, process and relationship issues (CPR)
- Positional and interest-based bargaining
- Common errors made during negotiations
- Defining success in negotiation
- Preparation for negotiation: the seven elements of preparation
- Interacting with the other side: the five phases of negotiation
- Characteristics of a good negotiator
- Power of negotiation
- Obstacles and complicating factors
- Becoming a better negotiator
- Dealing with difficult people (understanding why you find it more challenging to deal with certain people)
Date: 31 October 2019
Price: R1 500 excl. VAT (includes 3 resources)
Duration: 1 Day
Facilitator: Ulrich Stander
Chairing and Initiating hearings
A hands-on approach
- Substantive fairness guidelines: understanding guilt and sanction
- Procedural fairness - the role of the initiator and chairperson
- How to gather facts and information - the investigation
- Preparing for and initiating a disciplinary hearing
- Strategising the case
- Preparing an opening and closing statement
- Understanding balance of probabilities
- How to examine and cross examine
- Rules of evidence - dealing with evidence and admissibility
- The roadmap for conducting a hearing successfully: the 12 steps
- Dealing with various obstacles at the hearing: What may go wrong and what are the challenges?
- Deciding on the balance of probabilities
- Determining sanction
- Alternatives to dismissal
Date: 6, 7 November 2019
Price: R2 200 excl. VAT (includes comprehensive manual)
Duration: 2 Days
Facilitators: WP Moolman, Ulrich Stander
Gender diversity in the workplace
The next wave
- LGBTQ inclusive workplaces: what do these workplaces look like?
- Understanding substantive diversity
- Understanding and identifying unconscious bias:
- confirmatory bias
- affinity bias
- social comparison bias
- Understanding the differences:
- gender
- sexual orientation
- gender identity
- gender non-confirming
- LBGTQ
- bisexual
- Identify workplace barriers related to gender
- Confirmatory bias
- Affinity bias
- Social comparison bias
- Inclusive language and vocabulary: examples
- Common myths related to gender identity
Date: 13 November 2019
Price: R1 200 excl. VAT (includes handout)
Duration: 1/2 day
Facilitator: Ulrich Stander
Case law update
The latest on some challenging topics
- Cannabis – approaches to testing and levels: “under the influence”
- Derivative misconduct – failure or refusal to disclose knowledge of misconduct during a strike
- A union organising in an industry not covered in its scope of registration
- Is a strike unprotected if a union failed to hold a secret ballot?
- Is dismissal possible after resignation?
- Picketing – dismissing employees for a breach of picketing rules
- Fixed-term contracts and S198B – the latest
- Automatic unfair dismissal – refusal to agree to a change to terms of conditions of employment
- Misconduct – racism, unauthorised absence, assault, dishonesty, insubordination, negligence, misrepresentation, breach of fiduciary duties and breach of safety rules
- Impossibility of performance – a valid ground for dismissal?
Date: 20 November 2019
Price: R1 200 excl. VAT (includes handout)
Duration: 1/2 day
Facilitator: WP Moolman
VENUE
Maserumule office, 1st floor, Tijger Park 2, Willie van Schoor Ave, Bellville
CANCELLATION FEE
5 or more days prior to workshop date - 50%
Less than 5 working days prior to workshop date - 75%
Substitutes allowed
PARKING
Free (open-air) parking available 400m from our office
Alternatively, parking - for own account - across road from our office in Edward Street.
VENUE
Maserumule office, 1st floor, Tijger Park 2, Willie van Schoor Ave, Bellville