Upcoming Webinar

• Dealing with Preliminary Issues in Disciplinary and Grievance Enquiries

  Date: Friday, 16 October 2026   Time: 11h00 – 12h00   Presented by: Tanya Venter

  Before the merits are reached, chairpersons often face objections and applications that can derail the process, cause delays or produce findings that will not survive later scrutiny at the CCMA, a bargaining council or the Labour Court. How these issues are handled at the outset often decides whether the outcome is procedurally fair.

  The webinar will cover

  • Requests for legal or external representation, and the factors a chairperson must weigh
  • Applications for postponement, and proceeding in the absence of the employee
  • Recusal applications and allegations of bias against the chairperson
  • Challenges to the chairperson's authority and to compliance with the employer's disciplinary code or collective agreement
  • Objections to vague or defective charges, and requests for further particulars
  • Delay in instituting proceedings, and claims of double jeopardy
  • Access to documents and witness statements before the enquiry
  • Disputes over interpreters, recordings and the conduct of proceedings
  • Legal challenges to disciplinary proceedings
  • How to record and reason rulings on preliminary issues
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