Question 1: “Employees suffering from mental health issues either directly or indirectly affect the workplace in the form of low morale, workplace inefficiencies or even lost time or workplace accidents. The World Health Organization (WHO) conducted a study in 2014 illustrating that by 2020, depression will be a primary contributor to the global health burden.” Yeats, M. 2017. OHSA – yes, this includes mental health […]
Posted: November 8, 2023
Skills Development Low skills perpetuate poverty and inequality. When done right, skills development can reduce un- and underemployment, increase productivity, and improve standards of living. Helping people develop and update their skills makes economic sense. Required: Write an essay in which you explain how skills development can be effectively leveraged to address and alleviate poverty, inequality, and unemployment. Note to student: • The use of […]
Posted: October 18, 2023
QUESTION 1 XYZ (Pty) Ltd manufactures leather products for the automobile industry and employs approximately 1000 semi-skilled and unskilled employees in Ga-rankuwa outside Pretoria. Since early 2000, the General Industrial Workers Union of South Africa (Union A) has represented the majority of the first employer’s workers and has enjoyed the organisational rights regulated by the Labour Relations Act 66 of 1995 (the Act). On 16 […]
Posted: September 6, 2023
Question 1 (12 marks) Read the extract below and answer the question(s) that follow: “Parental leave implies that the leave is applicable to both mothers and fathers. However, the South African model of parental leave is one-sided as it applies more directly to fathers than to both parents equally. This leaves one to question why it was modelled as parental leave at all, rather than […]
Posted: August 16, 2023
The employees at Siyasebenza Textiles (Pty) Ltd, a small company which manufactures T-shirts, are unhappy. Their employer refuses to allow them a lunch break during working hours which is in violation of the law. Siyasebenza has made it a policy that it does not employ coloured (mixed race people) people and all Catholic employees have also been overlooked for promotions. The company’s employees are disgruntled […]
Posted: April 12, 2023
