Labour and Employment

The failure to deduct or to pay over employees’ tax is a criminal offence (along with various other acts or omissions regarding employees’ tax obligations’. Offenders will be liable on conviction to a fine or imprisonment of up to one year.  Every employer has many statutory obligations and risks in respect of its employees. These…

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Compliance with International Auditing Standards  International Auditing Standards require that auditors plan and perform audits to obtain reasonable assurance that the financial statements are free of material misstatement.  Salaries and salary-related costs often comprise a significant percentage of the total expenditure of an enterprise, therefore it is easy to envisage that incorrect employees’ tax payments…

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Set your standards from the start, for everyone’s benefit… Statistics show that 87% of cases brought before the CCMA are won by employees, often because their employers didn’t follow the correct procedures. To protect your business, it’s well worth creating a human resources system that includes all the documentation required in terms of our labour…

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One of the most important documents that all small businesses should have in place is signed employment contracts between the organisation and all employees. These set out the ground rules between the parties, let employees know exactly what is expected from them, what they can expect and provides a reference document on a wide variety…

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