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It is the third session. The gap has come down from 9% to 2.5%. Everyone in the room knows roughly where this is going to land. And yet nobody moves. If you work in employee or labour relations, you have sat in that room. You have watched a negotiation that was 80% done stall for three weeks, go to conciliation, pick up a strike notice, and settle in the end at a number that was on the table a month earlier, after everybody had lost a fortnight's production, salaries and a g

The most important workplace developments of the week point in the same direction: organisations will increasingly be judged by the reality of how work is organised and how conflict is handled — not merely by the language of a contract, policy or values statement.

Workplace conflicts are an inevitable part of a dynamic work environment. They can arise from differing opinions, misunderstandings, or...

According to the Code of Good Practice on Sexual Harassment, sexual harassment is defined as any unwanted conduct of a sexual nature,...

What should employers know about retrenchment? Once a possibility at the beginning of lockdown, retrenchment has now become the new...