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Game over for the employee or just a hindrance?

Employees who have signed settlement agreements often find their CCMA claim shattered before it starts. A settlement agreement, in principle, constitutes a waiver of the employee’s rights and therefore renders a dispute non-existent and the CCMA is subsequently without jurisdiction. Many employers, labor practitioners and advisors make use of settlement agreements at the end of the employee’s tenure as a way to eliminate further disputes ...

To those of you who know that this was the home of the Red Giant Design Blog until today, the time has finally come for me to start blogging officially on our own website. We've done this for a number of reasons - mainly marketing and SEO related.

I would appreciate it if those of you who enjoyed my writing on web design, branding and small business would take a minute or two to Subscribe to the Blog. I'll be posting regularly on the aforementioned topics and I promise some kick-ass ...

I see that some enumerators in Durban are threatening to withhold census forms from Statistics SA as they have not yet been paid.

Does this mean that the population of Durban will officially be 0 (zero) if the problem is not solved?

I'd like to start this post off with a couple of questions.

1.) Have you changed background image on your computer from the default?
2.) Have you ever rearranged the icons on your iPhone/Blackberry/Android?
3.) Have you ever bought any seemingly weird gadgets because you had a specific purpose for them?
4.) Have you ever set up a macro in Excel?
5.) Is your desk arranged in a specific manner?
6.) Have you ever bought a car and a.) ticked ...

There are four requirements to calculate a capital gain or loss. These four requirements are considered the building blocks of Capital Gains Tax (CGT). There must be an asset, and said asset is disposed of. This puts into motion the requirement to calculate the Capital gain or loss for which the base costs must be determined, as must the proceeds. There is not a separate tax for capital gains per se. A capital gain or loss is calculated according to Schedule Eight of The Income Tax Act, and the ...

In South Africa, and perhaps the world, there exists a culture where large corporate beasts take complete advantage of those who feed them - their customers. These monsters lure their prey in with pseudo-promises and fancy marketing speak. Once they have devoured every last cent from him, the naive consumer is caged and sentenced to below-par service and no recourse for the length of the contract that he was silly enough to be bullied into.

One such corporate monster is "education ...