Employment
Global Guide 2024 : South Africa
Band 4
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+27 11 586 6000About
Provided by Fasken
Appropriately navigating the labour, employment, and human rights landscapes is essential to attracting, retaining, and motivating your employees and by extension successfully maintaining and developing your business.
Our Labour, Employment & Human Rights (LEHR) lawyers work with clients to provide proactive, pragmatic and cost-effective advice. Whether you need help to conclude innovative collective agreements or create risk management and compliance programs, we have the in-depth knowledge and experience required. In the event disputes arise, we will help you defuse tension among stakeholders and skillfully represent your interests in court, before tribunals or at arbitration.
In addition to our extensive Canadian presence and experience, we boast highly qualified and detailed-oriented LEHR lawyers in Johannesburg, South Africa, as well as connections to experts around the world, which enables us to help employers from all facets of industry and government, wherever they operate.
At Fasken, we act for numerous prominent foreign corporations, providing specialized advice and representation in adapting their human resources strategies to the Canadian and South African environments.
Chambers Review
Fasken is particularly noted for providing employment advice to clients in the mining and natural resources industries, with further activity in the energy and manufacturing sectors. The team is well recognised for its impressive work in pensions and benefits and related litigation, with extensive experience in collective bargaining, industrial action and dismissals. The firm also provides counsel on issues involving employee discipline and health and safety risks. Furthermore, it is well versed in handling employment due diligence as well as the employment and labour repercussions of M&A and corporate restructuring.
Work Highlights
- Fasken represented Sandvik in disciplinary processes against senior managers.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Its team possesses vast experience in a wide range of industries and clients, and is thus able to cross-pollinate approaches and knowledge and advise from various contexts to find the best resolution."
"Their approach is extremely client-centric."
"Fasken's team is prompt and delivers on time."
"Its team possesses vast experience in a wide range of industries and clients, and is thus able to cross-pollinate approaches and knowledge and advise from various contexts to find the best resolution."
"Their approach is extremely client-centric."
"Fasken's team is prompt and delivers on time."
Notable Practitioners
Ludwig Frahm-Arp provides guidance to his clients on issues such as industrial action, as well as acting on labour relations and unfair labour practices disputes. He regularly acts for clients in the mining sector.
"I trust him 100% with serious labour matters and he has never let me down."
Paul Fouché provides contentious and advisory counsel to his employer clients on labour relationships and industrial action, dismissals and workplace health and safety. He also provides guidance on the employment aspects of restructurings and retrenchments.
"Paul Fouché is highly knowledgeable."
Neil Searle enters the rankings in acknowledgement of his activity and recognition in the fields of employment and labour relations. Clients often call upon him for his experience in employment litigation, including unfair dismissal cases.
"I love working with Neil Searle. He is knowledgeable and personable."
"Neil Searle is an incredible professional with exceptional knowledge. He has the ability to tell a client what they should know, not just what they want to hear."
"He offers sound business advice and is a very strong relationship builder."
Ranked Lawyers at
Fasken
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