Retirement: Clarity on an age-old debate
18 Oct 2022
BY Nils Braatvedt
A contract of employment does not automatically terminate by the effluxion of time when the retirement age is reached by an employee, nor is the contract tacitly renewed on different terms.
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Africa Business In Brief
issue 470 | 16 Oct 2022
issue 470
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Grey-listing looming as South Africa rushes to meet tight deadline
11 Oct 2022
BY Steven Powell
Being grey listed would likely further impair the economy’s links to the global financial system, raise the country’s cost of capital and create an additional disincentive for offshore companies to deal with South Africa.
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Employers, watch out: some digital or printed evidence might not be admissible in court
11 Oct 2022
A party wishing to rely on a data message in legal proceedings cannot simply hand in the data message as evidence. More is needed.
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Discrimination on religious grounds based on the inherent requirements of the job is fair
11 Oct 2022
BY Suemeya Hanif AND Kerry-Anne do Couto
The EEA provides that discrimination is not unfair if the reason for the discrimination is the employer’s operational requirements. It will not be considered unfair if it is capable of being justified.
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tax in brief
11 Oct 2022
Below, please find issue 90 of ENSafrica’s tax in brief, a snapshot of the latest tax developments in South Africa.
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Africa Business In Brief
issue 469 | 09 Oct 2022
issue 469
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South Africa deposits its instrument for ratification of the MLI
07 Oct 2022
The measures include the implementation of the minimum standards relating to the prevention of treaty abuse and the improvement of dispute resolution.
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Round-up | ESG news, risks and strategies
04 Oct 2022
The latest from ENSafrica on ESG news, risks and strategies
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Facebook: a somewhat tricky METAmorphosis from Facebook to Meta
04 Oct 2022
BY Tevin Jones
The Facebook-Meta re-brand highlights a number of trade mark basics and truths: trade mark registration is very important, as regards both the right to use the trade mark and the ability to enforce rights.
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IP: Threats, theft and ignorance
04 Oct 2022
It’s always been accepted that the flag was created by Harold Frederick Brownell, a man who was the State Herald at the National Archives for the period 1982 – 2002.
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COVID-19: Is the IP truce over?
04 Oct 2022
In the early days of the pandemic, Moderna undertook that it would not enforce its patent rights, so that other companies could develop their own jabs, particularly in poorer countries.
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Sparkling wine and a “spade of inspiration”
04 Oct 2022
BY Liézal Mostert
It is a well-established rule that the likely consumer is a factor that can and should be considered when determining the likelihood of confusion between two brands.
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Trade marks – product shapes and slogans
04 Oct 2022
BY Ilse du Plessis
Shapes and slogans can function as trade marks and they can, in some cases, be legally protected.
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Jagersfontein disaster: another example of why to take ESG seriously
04 Oct 2022
BY Isaac Fenyane AND Thato Tomotomo
As an alternative to the shareholder supremacy approach, a stakeholder-inclusive approach that takes the position that the purpose of the company is to operate for all material stakeholders and society at large.
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