1010 Retrenchment – part 1

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LLA 1010 Retrenchment – part

Table of Contents

1.     Introduction

2.     When can an employee be retrenched?

2.1        To increase the employer’s profit

2.2        To introduce flexible work practices

2.3        To outsource

2.4        On the loss of business

2.5        Moving the business to another location

2.6        Financial position

2.7        Redundancy

2.8        To effect a change in the conditions of employment

2.9        Downsizing

2.10      On the closure of the business

2.11      Restructuring of the business

2.12      Cost of compliance with labour legislation

3.     Reasons which are not ‘operational requirements’

3.1        Causation

3.2        Legislation

3.3        Where employee is employed on a fixed term contract

4.     When may an employee not be retrenched?

5.     A practical overview of the decisions to be made in a retrenchment process

6.     The retrenchment process – procedural fairness

7.     An overview of the process in terms of  the LRA

7.1        The initiation of the process: the proposal