This is all good and well for large companies, but SME's just do not have a budget and time to follow the procedures to the T. The problem is not the large companies, but the smaller ones with 5 to 20 employees, who can not afford an HR department, and to run to a lawyer every second day, is just not a viable option, firstly based on time and financial cost.
I will cite an example with me some years back, I was taken to the CCMA for supposedly unfair dismissal for an employee who absconded for over a year due to health reasons, it would have cost me more money to get a labour lawyer to handle the case on my behalf than to have accepted the so called payout for the alleged dismissal. Whilst I was in the right, I still suffered the financial loss. We can sit and debate what I did wrong or right or whatever, at the end of the day is cost me time and money for a situation that was not true. It also came at a time in which I was at the most financially vulnerable, which hurt the company even more, and when one is in survival mode, this can make or break you. Fortunately I survived.
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