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Liza Hall

HOW TO CHOOSE AN EXECUTOR

How To Choose An Executor

No matter how thorough your estate plan is,  choosing the right person to carry out your final wishes is one of the most critical aspects. It can be challenging to pick an organised executor to file paperwork on time who is also diplomatic enough to handle potentially volatile family relationships.

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POPIA, Employees And Employment Contracts

Employers will inevitably collect or already have personal information about their employees on file or stored electronically. With the Protection of Personal Information Act, No. 4 of 2013 (“POPIA”) now in force, such employee information must be protected in their workplace just as it should be protected by other bodies who possess their personal information.  

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GETTING THE BOOT FOR YOUR LOOT: CAN AN EMPLOYEE BE DISMISSED FOR TAKING PART IN VIOLENCE OR LOOTING?

Getting The Boot For Your Loot: Can An Employee Be Dismissed For Taking Part In Violence Or Looting?

An employee’s conduct outside of their workplace and ordinary work hours is not subject to the control or authority of their employer. Ordinarily, facing disciplinary proceedings for one’s after-hours actions would not be considered “substantively fair”. Even arrest or criminal activity by an employee does not give an employer the automatic right of dismissal. The purpose of this Act is, among other things, “to create offences which have a bearing on cybercrime; to criminalise the disclosure of data messages which are harmful …” and creates mechanisms and procedures for determining and prosecuting the criminalised activities enumerated therein.

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