2026 Annual Labour Law and Practice Update Webinar

Overview of the webinar

2026 has been a pivotal year for South African employment relations. This webinar is your fast track to everything that changed. Andrew Levy brings you right up to date with the latest developments, cases and legal issues of the year.

Expect practical implications, straight answers and insights you can put to work the very next morning. Andrew has reviewed the 2026 cases from the Constitutional and Labour Courts downwards and distilled the essential knowledge that every HR/IR practitioner, Manager and Payroll professional needs.

The session runs in Andrew’s signature Q&A format — ask the questions that apply to your organization, and benefit from interaction with other delegates.

16 Critical Questions Answered:

• Fair Pay Bill: What the new Bill means for recruitment and promotion.
• Manpower Services Bill: Clarity on employing foreign workers.
• Probation Pitfalls: The true position on probation and how to use it safely.
• Delayed Hearings: The employee who delays a hearing with medical certificates.
• AI Fraud: Is submitting AI material as your own a dismissible offence?
• AI Future: What AI will mean for the HR and Payroll function.
• CCMA Trapdoors: The evidence that will lose you your case – and what to use.
• Zero-Tolerance: The danger of zero-tolerance policies – the courts speak.
• Competitor Interviews: Is interviewing with a competitor a dismissible offence?
• Parental Leave: Untangling the confusion on parental leave.
• Sick Leave Lies: Firing an employee who lies about sick leave.
• Discipline Ruses: Halting disciplinary proceedings via the Protected Disclosure Act.
• Underpayment Claims: How employees use s73A of the BCEA for underpayment claims.
• Equal Pay: The many cases where equal work does not mean equal pay.
• Employee Status: New definitions of employee and what they mean for you.
• CCMA vs Courts: Rising tension between the CCMA and the Courts.

About Andrew Levy

Andrew Levy is one of South Africa's best known labour resources and presents the Annual Labour Law and Practice Update Webinar.

He has spent over forty years in the field, has written four books on labour law and practice, and holds Masters degrees in both labour economics and labour law.