Article written by Philippa Chappell (Manager: Advisory Services, ContinuitySA) The management of human resources during a crisis is multi-faceted and typically managed in three parts of a holistic business continuity management response. The initial emergency response focusing on the immediate need for the safety of staff. The business continuity component which focuses on operational elements, […]
Article written by Johan Botes and Kirsty Gibson (Bizcommunity) President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced that sections of the long-awaited Protection of Personal Information Act (PoPIA) will finally be enforceable from 1 July 2020. Companies that process data regarding their employees, clients and service providers now have one year to ensure compliance with PoPIA’s data processing […]
Article provided by Discovery Business Insurance Business law spans employment to contracts and ethics. Lawyers Lwando Xaso, a constitutional law expert and Graeme Wilson, a legal eagle for start-ups, share their guidelines. South Africans could have been spared years of lost opportunity and growth had our leadership stuck to the basic tenets of the country’s […]
Article written by Albert Mouton (SEESA) South Africa and the world at large are currently going through a devastating economic downturn as a result of COVID-19. Employers and employees alike are living through an incredibly uncertain time with the nationwide lockdown. Whilst many efforts have been implemented by the Government to lessen the dire economic […]
Article provided by ENSafrica On 15 March 2020, the South African President declared a national state of disaster in terms of the Disaster Management Act, 2002. A number of measures have since been implemented by the government to counteract the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19), and several regulations, directives and guidelines have consequently been published. […]
Article by P Assenmacher (Assenmacher Brandt Attorneys) On 15 March 2020 President Ramaphosa declared a national state of disaster in terms of the Disaster Management Act, No. 57 of 2002 (“DMA”), and subsequent thereto published a number of regulations in terms of the DMA and the State of Emergency Act, No. 64 of 1997. The […]
Article by Herklaas Oberholster (Legal Advisor in Labour Department Seesa) Now and again, a pandemic takes the world by storm. From the “Spanish Flu”, the 1918 influenza epidemic to the more recent swine flu outbreak of 2009. Each brought with it its hysteria and pandemonium. The present-day cause of great concern and panic that has […]
