- Title
- The legality and enforceability of an automatic termination clause in the contract of employment
- Creator
- Mbewana, Ntsikelelo Elliot
- Subject
- Employees -- Dismissal of -- Law and legislation -- South Africa
- Subject
- Labor contract -- South Africa Unfair labor practices -- South Africa
- Date Issued
- 2020
- Date
- 2020
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- LLM
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/48993
- Identifier
- vital:41575
- Description
- This study seeks to determine the legality and enforceability of an automatic termination clause in a contract of employment. Our law seems to have two different procedures in dealing with this issue. The first aspect is to determine whether the automatic termination clause is inserted in a contract of employment merely to circumvent the provisions of the Labour Relations Act (LRA), in particular section 5(2)(b) of the LRA. If the intention is found to be to circumvent the purpose of the said provisions of the Act, then an automatic termination clause is not allowed and any termination of the contract resulting therefrom becomes a dismissal challengeable at the CCMA, Bargaining Council or Labour Court depending on the issue at hand. In the alternative, there is no dismissal for the purposes of section 186(1) of the Act in circumstances where the end of an agreed fixed term is defined by the occurrence of a particular event. Put differently, there is no dismissal when the agreed and anticipated event materialises. The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa provides that everyone has the right to fair labour practices. This provision guarantees the right not to be unfairly dismissed and is in line with Article 4 of Convention 158 of the International Labour Organisation which provides that the employment of a worker shall not be terminated unless there is a valid reason for such termination connected with the capacity or conduct of the worker or based on operational requirements of the undertaking, establishment or service. This study aims to investigate the question of the legality and enforceability of an automatic termination clause in a contract of employment by analysing inter alia, the Constitution, LRA, ILO recommendations and the authorities in order to determine the extent of protection afforded to employees against employers.
- Format
- vi, 56 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Law
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela University
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