In the business world of South Africa today, it becomes vital that both managers and normal employees alike are subject to training - especially with the advent of the Skills Development Act.

The following training should and can be implemented in the work place which training offered by us takes the form of a live tutor together with work books and audio visual aids. You can also buy specific training programmes on video and CD as they become available.
More than that, we have monthly training seminars on most of the topics covered below. Please visit to our current training page to see what training we are doing for that month, the venue and the cost.

Also, we are able to take our training courses and present them to you and your management at your premises.

Please email us on info@labourjustice.com, or call us on 5116385 to discuss our training services.

SOME OF OUR COURSES.

1. INTERNAL DISCIPLINARY PROCEDURES - For management in particular and how to implement these:

   Topics Covered

   • Drafting and putting into effect your own specific Code of Discipline.
     
   • What is a Code of Conduct and Discipline
     
   • How and when to use your own specific Internal Code of Discipline
     
   • Warnings, what they are, and how and when to implement
     
   • Notifications to attend a Disciplinary Hearing - How to draft & serve these
     
   • Role of the Initiator - what to do and how to do it
     
   • Role of the Chairman / Presiding Officer - Who should Preside and how this is done
     
   • The Award and Sanction - what these are and how to draft them;
     
   • The Appeal - What this is, how and when to implement
     Counselling - Exactly what this is and how it is implemented
   How do you dismiss an employee correctly and with no hassles.
   Learn about the complications you might have to deal with, how much it will cost you and how it will affect you and your company if your disciplinary process is not handled correctly. And more.……………..
   
   
2. SALARY AND PAYROLL ADMIN TRAINING COURSE.

   After last year's false alarm, it is almost certain that the new UIF
   legislation will come into effect in 2002. At training, managers, accounts department and payroll/ salaries admin personnel will be able to
   learn about onerous new returns you will probably have to make and how much extra employers will have to pay in UIF contributions.
   
   Topics Covered
   

   • Paye must be deducted from the remuneration of directors and members of close corporations from March 2002 - not just on current earnings, but on previous years' earnings! Learn about the complications you might have to deal with, and how it will affect the skills development levy.
   • Learn to distinguish between directors of public and private companies - many public companies are private companies for income tax purposes.
   • A look at the labour law definition of an employee.
     Empoyees tax on casual employees and students - a real mine field!
   • How should "top up" payments made by school to teachers paid by government be taxed?
   • Will directors remain provisional taxpayers if they pay paye? What makes one a provisional taxpayer?
   • Another look at employment companies receiving their first tax assessments as such. Will they be able to carry on business?
   • Are you calculating overtime and notice pay correctly (in accordance
     with the Basic Conditions of Employment Act)?
   • And more...
     
     
3. ARE YOU BEING SUED? What to do if you have to go to CCMA - Arbitration and Labour Court.
   
   Topics covered
   • The CCMA, Bargaining Councils and The Labour Court -What they are and how they operate
   • The job and powers of the commissioner
   • Conciliation, Arbitration, and Labour Court Cases -Learning what they are, the difference between them and how to handle each
   • What is Condonation and what do you do if you receive an application
   • 7.11 and Dispute Referrals -What they are and what you do if you receive one
   • How do you prepare your case and defenses?
   • Basic Litigation Techniques
   • Statement of Case -What it is and how to prepare it ...and serve it
   • How do you win a Labour Case
   • How do you avoid Labour Litigation
     
     
4. BASIC INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS AND LABOUR LAW
   
   After the training you will understand what Industrial Relations is and what basic Labour Laws must be implemented in your company.

   A MUST for all new business owners, managers and the HR department;

5. STAFF CONTROL AND SECURITY
   
   How to control staff; what documents are required -Staff files and what they must contain; UIF and Workmans Comp regulations; How to obtain the information for your staff files; Electronic controls - id cards and photos on a computer data base; How to maintain Security; What to do if there is pilfering and/or if staff are Divulging confidential Company information;
   
   
6. PRESIDING OFFICERS - How does a presiding officer / chairman to a hearing actually conduct proceedings to ensure that everything is Procedurally Correct
   
   
7. STAFF RECRUITMENT - How to recruit staff and what pitfalls are there in terms of employment law; What to do with received CV's; How to assess when you have a vacancy; How to draft an employment advert; How and when to advertise; How to interview with a checklist; How to make your decisions; How to place the new employee; What to do with those rejected; How to avoid being sued; How and when to use an employment agency;
   
   
8. NECESSARY DOCUMENTATION FOR COMPLIANCE WITH CURRENT LABOUR LAW
   All documentation is explained and after training you will have a thorough
   understanding of being compliant with the Basic Conditions of Employment
   Act, The Labour Relations Act, All Safety and Health Acts; Explanations on Letters of Appointment; Codes of conduct;
   
   
9. WORKER COMMITTEES
   What these are; Explanation of the different Committees - Staff, Skills
   development and training, Safety committee; How to implement these without
   prejudicing the company and more in favour of management; Difference between Worker Committee and Forum; Role of Trade Union;
   
   
10. OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY

    Health and sefety in your workplace.(Full course)

11. THE LABOUR RELATIONS ACT -Divided into two parts for management and employees
    
    
12. THE SKILLS DEVELOPMENT ACT -
    
    
13. THE EMPLOYMENT EQUITY ACT - Divided into two parts for management and for staff.
    
    
14. INTERNAL DISCIPLINARY AND GRIEVANCE PROCEDURES -

    2. GENERAL INTERNAL TRAINING - mostly for line managers & general staff.

    • GRIEVANCE AND DISCIPLINARY PROCEDURES -A tutoring session explaining what the rights of individual staff are and how to apply these rights in terms of Internal Procedures (For staff only)
    • MOTIVATIONAL TRAINING - To motivate both managers and staff
    • THE SECRETARY AND SWITCH BOARD OPERATOR -How best to implement secretarial and switch board duties

3. CREDIT

Full training given on how to collect your debts more effectively.

Tuition for all sales and credit staff.

Training on how to manage.

Training on credit and sales policy.

PLEASE VISIT OUR CREDIT SERVICES PAGE.

4. THE LAW and FINANCE

How to avoid being summonsed and what to do if you are summonsed. How to issue summons against those who owe you money. How to defend against summonses from those who believe you owe them money.

We also have a number of professionally produced videos in some of the above topics which also carry with them facilitators guides.

Please let us know what interests you, either the implementation of internal tutoring sessions or alternatively the purchase of training video programmes.

For more information on this please revert to our employers call us page or e-mail your queries to info@labourjustice.com.