WE'RE PROUD TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH THE FOLLOWING ORGANISATIONS
SASLAW PARTNERS
SASLAW PARTNER
Tier 2
- Global Business Solutions
Global Business Solutions (GBS) is a leading Labour Law, Human Resources and Labour Relations consultancy offering a diverse range of services customised to meet the bespoke needs of the client. GBS is unashamedly client centric and uses design thinking principles in crafting solutions. GBS is a business of consequence with a wealth of experience and expertise spanning more than 30 years since its establishment. View our services here
With a closely integrated national footprint of offices across South Africa and with partners in other global geographies, GBS is well-positioned to respond quickly and effectively to clients’ needs by providing practical and sustainable solutions. Our client base includes the full range of private, public, governmental and para-statal organizations from large blue-chip multinationals to small and medium size enterprises as well as start ups.
Contact Details: 011483 3722
- JUTA
Juta has been a trusted leader in South African publishing for over 170 years, delivering authoritative legal and academic content in both print and digital formats. Alongside its renowned publications, Juta offers advanced legal tech solutions—including Jutastat Evolve, Practical Insights, Legalbrief, and recent acquisitions Contractzone and Litigator—which streamline legal workflows and practice management.
Its latest innovation, Quantum Quest, revolutionizes legal research and damages calculation by offering access to over 78 years of case law summaries and CPI-based damages projections, fully integrated with Juta’s respected Damagesseries. Supporting both legal and non-legal professionals in compliance, governance, and risk management, Juta continues to lead in legal information and technology as a Level 1 BBBEE contributor.
- LexisNexis
For over 85 years LexisNexis South Africa has been at the forefront of legal content and technology, driven by its commitment to the vision of ‘Enhancing the Potential of the African Continent by Advancing the Rule of Law’. With its strong community of legal professionals, it advances the practice of law. Through its corporate solutions, it advances compliance with the law. Finally, LexisNexis partners closely with government to advance the upholding of the law. Today, LexisNexis South Africa provides the most trusted and credible legal and regulatory content and intelligent, digital platforms. Its corporate solutions guide clients to better decisions, grounded in the latest legislation and regulatory developments. LexisNexis® prides itself on offering unmatched content accuracy together with superior technology. From e-signature to GRC, LexisNexis equips today’s organisation to protect against risk in the most robust way.
SASLAW PARTNER
Tier 3
- Bowmans
Bowmans helps its clients manage legal complexity and unlock opportunity in Africa. With over 500 lawyers and offices in six countries, Bowmans’ advice uniquely blends expertise in the law, knowledge of local markets and an understanding of clients’ businesses. The firm has been at the forefront of employment law in Africa for many years. It offers a breadth and depth of knowledge and experience in the fields of industrial relations, employment, employee benefits and pensions law that is hard to match. Services range from engaging and moving employees to business transfers, outsourcing and restructuring, and extend to investigations and employee risk management, industrial relations and collective bargaining, and dispute resolution.
- Fasken
Fasken is a leading international law firm with more than 950 lawyers and ten offices on three continents. The firm has had an established presence in Africa for over 130 years, with the firm in South Africa tracing its founding to 1879. With offices in Johannesburg, London and in Canada’s major business centers, we access a growing network of business leaders and advisers throughout Africa and beyond. Because business across the continent is powered by relationships, clients with interests in Africa benefit from our global connections. Our Johannesburg team has experience and expertise in all of Africa’s established and growth industries, including mining, energy, infrastructure, life sciences, healthcare, technology and finance. Our offices are in Sandton, Johannesburg, home of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and the location of many corporate and investment banks, global audit firms and the regional headquarters of many international businesses. We are able to serve clients in English, French, and all of South Africa’s official languages.
- Labournet
LabourNet Management’s Ultimate HR Solutions, Your strategic partner to assist employers to manage every aspect of the employer-employee relationship. Employers today are facing the dual challenge of maximising the return on their Human Capital on the one hand, while managing the huge legal and administrative responsibilities that the various labour related acts, codes, charters and other legislation place on them. As “Management’s Ultimate Solution”, LabourNet is management’s strategic Human Capital partner, providing holistic solutions to our clients that not only assist them in managing and mitigating all labour-related risks, but provide solutions and services which give them a competitive edge in becoming employers of choice for the best talent. Having a national infrastructure and professionally qualified staff with unsurpassed experience, LabourNet provides businesses with a complete range of Human Capital Solutions through any of our flexible and cost-effective packages.
Contact Details: 087 758 0000
- Joubert Galpin Searle Attorneys
If you need a resolution to a legal problem or the realisation of an opportunity, we at Joubert Galpin Searle deliver because we understand how important the outcomes are to you.
With almost a century’s experience in the legal field, Joubert Galpin Searle is a firm of attorneys that is set apart by the fact that we deliver legal solutions effectively and efficiently, being innovative but never compromising traditional values of integrity, trust, mutual respect, and a dynamic approach to the constantly changing legal- and business environment.
Our core competence is our business-like approach to law. Let us guide you as your astute lawyers with business acumen.Our focus areas: Labour, Commercial, Litigation, Conveyancing, Eastes, Recoveries
Website: www.jgs.co.za
LinkedIn: https://za.linkedin.com/company/joubert-galpin-searle
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JoubertGalpinSearle/
Contact information:
GQEBERHA
Address: 173 Cape Road, Mill Park Gqeberha, 6001
Contact number: 041 396 9200
EAST LONDON
Address: 11AE Beacon Crossing, Beacon Bay, East London, 5241
Contact number: 043 023 0094
QONCE
Address: 1st Floor, Sutton Square Mall, 8 Queens Road, Qonce, 5600
Contact number: 043 023 0094
- SALLR
The South African Labour Law Reports (SALLR)
THE SOUTH AFRICAN LABOUR LAW REPORTS (SALLR) has not only kept up with such developments but it has raced ahead. From a small publication in 1990, it has become South Africa’s premier labour law and industrial relations resource. Every Year The SALLR Team Deals With The Latest Developments In Labour Law, Human Resources And Employee Relations By Providing Delegates With Insight And Solutions To Deal With ‘Slip And Trip’ Issues – And 2025 Will Be No Exception.
SALLR Seminar & Events
The requirement that professionals keep up-to-date with the knowledge and skills necessary to execute their functions is the cornerstone of all recognised professions. The commitment to career-long learning is termed Continuous Professional Development (CPD) and the SALLR proudly drives this process.
Benefits of SALLR training ensures:
- You are provided with insightful questions and practical customised solutions
- The correct identification of trends
- A comprehensive legislative update
- Cross-referencing to publications, judgements, awards, rulings, etc
- The categorisation of the content in user-friendly manner
Contact Details: +27 41 373 4322
SASLAW PARTNER
Tier 4
- Cheadle Thomson & Haysom Inc
Our firm has played a pioneering role in the development of South African labour law since 1994. We were centrally involved in the legislative reform project and the re-drafting of the full suite of labour market legislation following the democratic elections in 1994. Since then, we have litigated many precedent-setting cases that have had a profound impact on the labour market generally.
Our practice covers the full range of labour and employment services and includes advising and representing our clients on the following specific issues:
- the application and implementation of fair workplace labour practices
- organisational rights of workers and employers
- collective bargaining
- general compliance with labour market legislation, including minimum employment standards
- employment equity
- corporate and workplace investigations
- grievance and disciplinary procedures, and hearings
- contracts of employment
- dismissal law
- specialist and superior court litigation
CONTACT PERSON:
Ms Shamima Gaibie
Head of Labour & Employment Law DepartmentTel: 011 403 2765
Email: shamima@cth.co.za
- Cowan Harper Madikizela Attorneys
Our firm was founded in 2009 and has since established itself as a well-known and respected name in the provision of professional legal services, particularly in the areas of employment law, industrial relations and litigation.
Following the merger of Cowan-Harper Attorneys and MNA Incorporated in 2018, Ms Nobanzi Madikizela-Nyati became the chairperson of the firm. The merger allowed us to grow our service offering which now includes public law, corporate governance, risk, commercial, corporate and compliance. We have also recently established commercial, property and conveyancing practices.
Our firm is committed to transformation and has been recognised as a level one B-BBEE contributor since 2018. This is an important milestone in our firm’s history and has allowed us to provide our clients with even greater value, while maintaining the high quality of personal and professional legal services that have always been a hallmark of our firm.
Contact Details:
Johannesburg - 011 048 3000
Cape Town -087 183 2249Thought Leadership
- DLA Piper
Employers face technological and economic uncertainties, including labour shortages, industrial action, and automation, while adapting to changing employee expectations. DLA Piper offers invaluable advice on recruitment, termination of employment, compensation, performance, misconduct, grievances, data protection, and workplace representation. We also handle contentious issues such as discrimination claims, non-compete and litigation matters, and regulatory investigations. Additionally, we manage the employment aspects of mergers, acquisitions, outsourcings, and corporate reorganisations, leveraging our M&A experience to ensure successful transformational projects.
- Molatudi Attorneys
MOLATUDI Attorneys is a boutique Sandton-based law firm, established in 2021, whose primary objective is to offer a unique basket of employment and corporate labour law services, advice and assistance of high quality to various corporate and individual clients across the board.
The firm is wholly black owned and its founder, Osborne Molatudi, brings to the fore over 27 years of experience in both legal practice and human resources management. He was admitted as an attorney in March 1998 in the High Court of KwaZulu Natal, Pietermaritzburg and has been on the roll of legal practitioners to date hereof.
In addition to providing professional legal services to private sector clients, the firm also serves on the panels of various public sector clients in the country.
- Norton Rose Fulbright
Norton Rose Fulbright provides a full scope of legal services to the world’s preeminent corporations and financial institutions. The global law firm has more than 3,000 lawyers advising clients across more than 50 locations worldwide, including London, Houston, New York, Toronto, Mexico City, Hong Kong, Sydney and Johannesburg, covering Europe, the United States, Canada, Latin America, Asia, Australia, Africa and the Middle East. With its global business principles of quality, unity and integrity, Norton Rose Fulbright is recognized for its client service in key industries, including financial institutions; energy, infrastructure and resources; technology; transport; life sciences and healthcare; and consumer markets.
Tel: +271 1685 8500
- solomonholmes
At solomonholmes, we believe that in a complex regulatory environment such as South Africa, employers require advice from specialist attorneys who not only have an in-depth knowledge of their field, but are able to provide practical and efficient solutions to every day operational issues. We offer our clients the benefit of a full service employment law practice ranging from restraints of trade to wage negotiations, strike management to dismissal procedures – see our services for more information. As such you will find that the attorneys at solomonholmes have all had substantial experience in the practical application of employment law. We understand the rigours of the workplace and are able to provide solutions to fit your changing needs. Labour and employment issues can often prove disruptive to the conduct of normal business and at solomonholmes we strive to ensure our clients arrive at an effective resolution with minimum interruption to operations. Whatever kind of employer you are we will be able to assist. If you have an enquiry or need to know more about our services please contact us.
- Tokiso
Tokiso is a private and independent dispute resolution company and an accredited private agency under the Labour Relations Act 66 of 1995.
Tokiso provides dispute resolution processes and support services for commercial, employment and community disputes. This includes mediations, arbitrations, facilitations and tailored processes. Tokiso’s processes and outcomes are legally enforceable and cost effective.