Stuff Employers Should Know
Becoming an employer does not come with a manual. Whether you're having a hard time keeping it together or need a little kick in the pants, this podcast will help. Get understandable and practical advice on how to deal with all aspects of the employment relationship from explaining labour laws, tackling dispute resolution and navigating compliance.
Episodes
61 episodes since 2021
Maintenance and Usage of Employee Personal Information
Ever wondered if your business is covered with all the “POPI” talks about compliance going around? Am I, as an employer following the correct protocols and what is actually considered “personal information”?
August 26, 2024
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Season 2024
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6:47
Integrating Compliance: How Your Payroll System Can Help
In this episode of we delve into how integrating compliance into payroll systems can significantly benefit businesses, particularly in adhering to POPIA. Hosted by Yasser Ismail, with insights from Samantha Walker, the National Product Ma...
June 12, 2024
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Season 2024
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5:16
Tax Year End Processes
Are audit findings keeping you awake at night? Is your payroll legislatively compliant? The end of the tax year is fast approaching, today we will discuss processes to follow to end off the tax year with an error free payroll.
February 25, 2024
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Season 2024
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7:14
Internal Payroll Audits, How Does It Help?
Are you ready for your next external audit? Internal audit of your payroll can help reduce audit findings against your organization and better prepare your company for their audit. Are you tired of inaccuracies and errors within your payroll on...
November 05, 2023
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Season 2023
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10:19
What is Employee Tax Incentive?
LabourNet Cape Town's Payroll Manager, Simeon Carter talks to us about the advantages of Employee Tax Incentives (ETI) and how it can save your business money!
July 24, 2023
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Season 2023
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9:47
Payroll Outsourcing and In-house Processing
LabourNet Cape Town's Payroll Manager, Simeon Carter talks to us about the differences between Payroll outsourcing and in-house processing and how they can benefit your business.
June 26, 2023
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Season 2023
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10:11
What Does Incident Investigation Entail? Occupational Health and Safety
Senior Health and Safety Consultant, Morne Oosthuizen, tells us how the incident management and investigation process provides organisations with an insight into the effectiveness of their health and safety management system. The process should...
June 19, 2023
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Season 2023
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22:20
Data Protection Rights
In 1948, the United Nations defined 30 articles of human rights which at their core were based on humanity, freedom, justice, and peace. This became a roadmap for how a lot of legislation was drafted, promulgated, and implemented the world over...
April 24, 2023
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Season 2023
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19:37
The All Importance of Strike Action
The first in our new series of episodes with Lehan Goosen, talking to us about Strike Action!
April 03, 2023
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Season 2023
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6:11
SETA Regulation Changes Explained!
We are joined by LabourNet Skills and Equity Product Manager, Linda Madida who takes us through the changes in SETA regulations.
March 20, 2023
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Season 2023
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9:38
The Impact Of Load Shedding On Employers
Adri Louw joins BGD for the first monthly show discussing all hot topics and cases in Labour Law. As the scourge of electricity load shedding seems to be ongoing, what impact does this have on employers and employees?
February 05, 2023
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Season 2023
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13:48
Can An Email Cost You Millions?
Samantha Walker and Sasha Tulshi take us through the "Dangers Of Email'' and discuss the recent case, Hawarden v Edward Nathan Sonnenbergs Inc (13849/2020) [2023] ZAGPJHC 14 (16 January 2023), which has caused quite the stir.
January 29, 2023
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Season 2023
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32:46
When Can a Dismissal Without a Hearing be Fair?
In this first episode of SESK for 2023, BGD discusses the exceptional circumstances where an employer can terminate employees for misconduct without a disciplinary hearing.Cases Discussed:Mphepya v The South African Wea...
January 22, 2023
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Season 2023
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16:19
Stuff Employers Should Know Anniversary Episode! - Can I See Your Payslip?
It's been a year since the inception of our Stuff Employers Should Know Podcast! And what better way to celebrate than to give our new listeners a rerun of our most popular episode thus far! Thank you for your support, we'll be back i Jan...
December 11, 2022
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8:06
SESK Select - 'Tis The Season To Be Responsible
The year-end office party has gained legendary status of being the epicenter of office debauchery and bad behavior. In this episode we discuss what employers should do in the run up to their year end party, or any office party, to prevent any p...
November 13, 2022
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Season 2022
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9:53
Managing Overtime Correctly
The Basic Conditions of Employment Act defines "overtime" as the time that an employee works during a day or a week in excess of ordinary hours of work. What are ordinary hours? and how is overtime compensated? BGD is back in studio to ...
October 24, 2022
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Season 2022
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11:34
The Proposed Employment Equity Amendments
In this episode we're joined by LabourNet's Skills & Equity Product Manager, Linda Madida who takes us through a high leveled overview of the proposed employment equity amendments and how organisations can prepare for them!For a dif...
October 10, 2022
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Season 2022
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13:52
The Struggles and Solutions of POPI Compliance!
The Information Compliance Team, Samantha Walker, Yumnah Dowlath and James Bradnick join us in studio teaching us how to apply solutions throughout the POPI compliance journey within an organisation to overcome it's struggles.You can co...
October 03, 2022
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Season 2022
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24:52
Can An Employee Be Fairly Dismissed Based On Age Alone?
The dismissal of employees who have reached and worked beyond the normal retirement age has been found to be fair. This was confirmed in Solidarity obo Strydom & 5 Others v State Information Technology Agency SOC (2022) 43 ILJ 1881 (LC)...
September 26, 2022
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Season 2022
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11:38
The Relevance of BBBEE In Todays' Day & Age Post COVID
Yas has some questions that need answering when it comes to BBBEE in South Africa and who better to answer them than LabourNets National BBBEE Product Manager, Tamanna Sharma.
September 12, 2022
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Season 2022
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7:07
Can an Employee Retract a Resignation?
What happens when an employee tenders their resignation, and then unilaterally seeks to withdraw their resignation? BGD talks us through this question which was put before the Labour Court (LC) in the interesting case of ...
September 05, 2022
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Season 2022
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5:58
The Correct Way of Drafting a Disciplinary Charge
Simple in theory yet quite difficult in practice, BGD gives insight into the tried and tested "formula" to use when drafting disciplinary charges. And remember... always be sufficiently particular!
August 29, 2022
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Season 2022
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7:20
Court Gives New Meaning To The Definition Of Mother & Son?
The Labour Court has found that the man had not intended to be dishonest when he went to his "mother’s" funeral twice as well as his "Son" despite not being the biological father.BGD discusses the interesting case of Toyota South Af...
August 22, 2022
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Season 2022
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8:38
The Practical Side of POPI
The Protection of Personal Information Act (“POPIA) has been in force for over 12 months. Organizations – private and public were given a one year grace period to become compliant. There are however still a lot of grey areas in terms of what co...
August 15, 2022
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Season 2022
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19:13
Absent Due to Protests - Do Employers Still Have to Pay?
The recent unrest and protest action in the Tembisa community disrupted public transport leaving commuters stranded. Protesters "locked down" the community and many residents feared to leave their homes. Many employers had employee...
August 08, 2022
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Season 2022
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10:43