It’s Sick Leave Season – Can You Reject a Dodgy Doctor’s Sick Note?
The last thing employers and employees want is for sick colleagues to drag themselves to work. There’s nothing more off-putting than sharing an office with a coughing and spluttering coworker. But, on the other hand, what can you as an employer do if you suspect staff of malingering? When can you insist on a medical certificate? And can you reject it if you think it’s falsified? A recent Labour Appeal Court decision over an employer’s decision to reject sick notes from a “dodgy doctor” addresses those questions.
Cannabis Policies in the Workplace: A Delicate Balancing Act
The continuously evolving legal landscape surrounding cannabis use both at home and in the workplace presents significant challenges to employers.
On the one hand, you have your duty to ensure safe working conditions for all employees and others in the workplace, on the other you have the very strong employee rights to individual privacy and dignity enshrined in our Constitution. Navigating your way through these unsettled waters requires a delicate balancing act, as a recent Labour Appeal Court award of over R1m to a wrongfully dismissed employee shows…
When is resignation a constructive dismissal?
Perhaps you are an employer, and that troublesome employee who you’ve been hoping would resign does exactly that. Saving you, as you see it, from the risk, hassle, and expense of disciplinary or retrenchment proceedings. But are you really home and dry? Or perhaps you are an employee, driven to resign by your employer’s constant […]