Labour Law and Industrial Relations

Richard Haslop		Lisa Williams De Beer
Department Head

Our Labour Law and Industrial Relations Department has represented a wide range of clients, from individual employees and trade unions, through small and medium sized enterprises, a bargaining council and a pension fund, to listed companies and parastatal organisations.

In addition to giving general advice on a wide variety of employment related matters, we have extensive experience in representing clients in wage and other negotiations, in chairing disciplinary hearings, in dealing with and assisting clients through strikes and retrenchments, and in appearing in tribunals from the CCMA and bargaining councils to the Labour Appeal Court.  We appear in court and at arbitrations in person wherever possible, so that clients are not burdened with the added cost of counsel.

Richard Haslop lectures in Labour Dispute Resolution at the Law Society of South Africa's School for Legal Practice where he is the national drafter of the course notes for the subject.

He is also the President of the South African Society for Labour Law, a member of the arbitration panel of the Arbitration Foundation of South Africa, and a member of the Labour Law Committee of the KwaZulu-Natal Law Society.

Lisa is a commissioner at the CCMA and sits on the panel of a number of bargaining councils as an arbitrator. She is a contributor to the Industrial Law Journal and a past president of the KwaZulu-Natal Chapter of the South African Society for Labour Law.