Presentations, ILERA Africa 2024

Track One: Individual labour law: unfair dismissals, unfair discrimination and dispute prevention and resolution

Sub-theme: Dismissals

• Cannabis Legalisation and Employment Law in South Africa: A Comprehensive Analysis of Off-Duty Cannabis Use and Workplace Dismissal (Thandekile Pulu)
• The detail is in the Damons: Unravelling the interplay between inherent requirements of the job, reasonable accommodation, employer hardships and incapacity dismissals (Rochelle Le Roux)

Sub-theme: Harassment in the Workplace

• Role of Collective Bargaining in implementing C190 - Violence and Harassment Convention, 2019 (No. 190) (Sharlaine Oodit)

Sub-theme: Public Sector Employment Law and Relations

• How could the professionalisation of the public service sector and labour law curb the practice of cadre deployment and its unfortunate consequences? (Monray Marsellus Botha & Nicola Smit)
• Challenges Regarding the Maintenance of Discipline and Effective Dispute Resolution within the Public-School Sector: A Case Study of the Grey College Matter (Bernard Bushe)

Track Two: Social protection, migrancy and the informal economy in Africa

Sub-theme: Migration and the Informal Sector

• Challenges of applying conventions to the informal economy: a developing world context (Elmarie Fourie & Evance Kalula)
• No regional integration without free movement of persons: challenges and issues (Yves Jorens)
• Unpacking the (in)adequacy of transboundary legal and institutional frameworks for combatting the economic exploitation of unaccompanied child migrant workers in Southern Africa (Admark Moyo)
• Reinforcing the nexus between Migration regulation and the social protection of workers in the informal economy in Africa: relooking multilateralism and African solidarity (Swikani Ncube)

Sub-theme: Introduction of a Basic Income Grant and Youth Unemployment

• A Conservate Case for An Income Grant: How a moral reframing may gather support for the Basic Income Grant in South Africa (Suhail Vawda)
• A basic income grant for South Africa from an informal economy perspective: lessons from selected SADC countries (Kamalesh Newaj)
• Unravelling the challenge of youth unemployment in South Africa - a comprehensive analysis (Frikkie de Bruin)

Sub-theme: Occupational Health and Safety and Health Insurance

• Occupational Health and Safety Right: A Linchpin for Decent Work Amid the Global Polycrisis: A South African Perspective (Evance Kalula)
• Social protection for accidents at work and occupational diseases in selected African countries (Grega Strban)
• Management Factors in European Aviation, The Effect on well being of cockpit & cabin crew & the impact on aviation safety (Lien Valcke)
• The South African National Health Insurance (Christopher Phiri)

Track Three: The impact of technology and digitisation on the world of work

• The new regulation on platform work in the European Union: An innovative approach – but will it work (and how)? (Kurt Pärli)
• Navigating Uncharted Waters: Legal and Regulatory Challenges of the Gig Economy (Betina Fleming)
• Rethinking social protection and social contracts in the context of the gig economy (Lauren Graham)
• Employee Rights in the Digital Age: The Cancel Culture and Employee Rights in South Africa (Thandekile Pulu)
• Assessment of performance of academics working online in South African Universities (Goldmarks Makamure)

Track 4: Collective labour law: social dialogue, collective bargaining and strikes

Sub-Theme: Social Dialogue and Social responsibility

• Dispute Prevention and Resolution as Pillars of Social Dialogue and Social Justice: Southern African Perspectives (Cameron Morajane, George Mpedi, Evance Kalula)
• Collective Labour Law - Social Dialogue in the Public Service – Conformity of the Emoluments Commission Act No. 1 of 2022 of Zambia with ILO Conventions Nos. 87 and 98 on Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining Norms (Clement Kasonde/ James Kalokoni)
• A Labour Law Perspective on Lacking Obligations of Businesses in a Neoliberal Free Market Economy (Beryl Ter Haar)

Sub-theme: Trade union rights and Collective Bargaining

• The Employment Law Response to The Principle of Majoritarianism and Its Impact on Minority Trade Unions: A South African Perspective (Clarence Itumeleng Tshoose)
• The Right to Strike and Essential Workers in Eswatini (Simphiwe Shabangu)
• Is strike a collective bargaining enabler in the public sector? The Zimbabwean Public Service workforce experience (Nowell Mpofu)