The Protection From Harassment Act – How does it affect the workplace?

The above act (Protection From Harassment Act) came into legal effect on the 27th April 2013, mainly to provide extra protection from harassment for victims of stalkers and protection from sexual harassment. The act also caters for domestic violence but can also affect the workplace.

Harassment”, briefly, means to directly engage in conduct that causes […]

ConCourt Rules on Damages Arising from Demonstrations

The Constitutional Court has today (13th June 2012) ruled that the law aims to afford victims effective recourse where a gathering becomes destructive and results in injury, loss of property or life. Organisers are obliged to at all times to take reasonable steps to prevent all reasonably foreseeable conduct that causes damage and the reasonable […]

Workplace Bullying is Harassment!

A letter to the Sunday Times yesterday (5th January 2012) dealt with an employee who believed her boss “to be from hell”. She (or, perhaps, he) expanded with comments such as “intent on sabotaging me at every turn; making my working life impossible; tells me of meetings five minutes beforehand; then requires […]