Can an employee refuse instruction that falls outside their normal scope of work?
It often happens that employers give instructions to employees that do not form part of their usual routine. This article will briefly discuss whether employees are obliged to execute all instructions received from their employer or supervisor, even if it is not what the employee was employed to do. As a point of departure, normally, an employee’s job description will be contained in their […]
Contracts tacitly novated after expiry of a fixed-term contract
In Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries v Teto and Others,1 the Labour Appeal Court (“LAC”) considered whether the termination of employees initially engaged on fixed-term contracts constituted a dismissal on the basis that the employees had become indefinitely employed when they were permitted to work beyond the expiry date in their fixed-term contracts.In this case, the employees had been […]