Can you be fired for carrying a weapon during a strike?

Undertaking strike action is one thing. Bringing weapons to that strike is entirely another.

26 July 2021

Understanding the vaccine rollout from a business perspective

The South African vaccine rollout has been expanded to include people over 50 years old. Nicol Myburgh, Head: CRS Technologies HCM Business Unit, discusses the obligations of companies when it comes to the vaccination, including providing days off for employees who need to get the jab and who may require sick...

19 July 2021

Coming to terms with the complexities of ETI

Introduced by government in 2013, the Employment Tax Incentive (ETI) scheme is designed to encourage employers to hire young work seekers by sharing costs. Even though it was only intended to run for three years, such was its success and the continued need to support youth employment, that government has...

14 July 2021

Understanding the challenges of digitalising the payroll

While digitalising a payroll has become a business imperative given the geographically dispersed workforce resulting from widespread lockdown conditions, it does not come without its share of challenges.

5 July 2021

Understanding the requirements of a digital payroll

Contrary to popular belief, migrating to a digital payroll solution is not simply a case of copying and pasting data into a cloud environment.

29 June 2021

Digitalising payroll vital for business growth

Payroll solutions in South Africa must be modernised to benefit from the likes of cloud computing, robotic process automation (RPA), and artificial intelligence.

17 June 2021

Can you be fired for a WhatsApp conversation?

Think the chat you’ve had with a group of colleagues is a secret and won’t cost you your job and reputation? Think again…

7 June 2021

Remote work beyond COVID-19

With the scale and scope of remote working being largely governed by the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown regulations, it is not difficult to imagine the distributed environment becoming part of the status quo.

1 June 2021

CRS your best bet in tackling ghost employee fraud

Ghost employees on a company’s payroll system ranks as the most difficult type of payroll fraud to detect, particularly in larger companies where no proper controls exist. Over time, this can pose a serious threat to the organisation’s profitability and sustainability, declares CRS Technologies general manager Ian McAlister.

25 May 2021

Remote working in action

By July last year, during the height of the first wave of COVID-19 infections, 44% of employees in the US worked from home. Meanwhile, more than half of respondents in a recent international survey stated they are working completely remotely.

24 May 2021