At the conclusion of the oral submissions I allowed the appeal stating that the full reasons would follow. The following are the reasons.
Respondent was in theemploy of the appellant as a Business Development Manager on a fixed term contract. The contract of employment was due to terminate on 31 January 2014. The respondent alleged that she had a legitimate expectation to be re-employed and reported her matter which led to arbitration proceedings. The arbitrator found in favour of the respondent. The appellant is dissatisfied with the decision of the arbitrator and has approached this court for relief. More
This is an appeal at the instance of the appellant employer and a cross appeal at the instance of the respondent employee. Both parties are aggrieved by the labour officer’s decision in a labour dispute between them. On the hearing date of the appeal and the cross appeal the employee raised 4 preliminary points. The employer had in turn raised a single preliminary point attacking the record of proceedings but dropped this part when the appeal and the cross appeal were being heard. This left for determination the points in limine at the instance of the employee and the merits... More
This is an appeal against the determination of the Registrar of Labour (the Registrar) in terms of which she limited the scope of registration of the appellant to the iron and steel production, ferro alloy, motor vehicle assembly and manufacturing industries. More
This matter was set down for parties to argue an application for interim relief. The record was prepared and paginated for that application. When the parties appeared the legal practitioner for the applicant withdrew the application so that parties could proceed to argue the merits. The parties had prior to their appearance before me,duly discussed and agreed to this route. I accordingly endorsed that that application had been withdrawn. More
