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Sandro Milo

Sandro Milo is a partner at Eversheds Sutherland's litigation group. He specialises in all aspects of litigation and arbitration, employment, and black economic empowerment law. Sandro is also an expert in the education sector and regularly advises tertiary institutions on the particular challenges facing this sector. He provides seminars and training to tertiary institutions, the Department of Education and his other clients on a wide variety of subjects.

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Articles by Sandro Milo

Grossly unreasonable and aberrant disciplinary hearing outcomes and sanctions need not stand

Most employers go to great lengths to ensure that they treat their employees fairly during their disciplinary hearings. They sometimes even appoint expert external chairpersons to preside over disciplinary hearings, in the expectation that this will ensure …

Thinking of resigning with immediate effect? Think again.

Our labour courts and labour appeal courts have repeatedly been asked to determine whether an employee may resign with immediate effect (in other words, circumvent his/her notice period) without the employer’s agreement and, relatedly, what the effect of such…

Resigning with immediate effect in the face of a disciplinary sanction to be imposed – A classic case of dodging the bullet, or not!

One of the oldest tricks in the book is for employees who are notified that they are to attend a disciplinary hearing is to resign...

Resigning with immediate effect

Coronavirus – Rights and obligations of employers and employees

As coronavirus (CoVID-19) spreads in South Africa, employers and employees alike find themselves in unchartered territory. Fortunately, most jurisdictions, including South Africa, have well established legal...

coronavirus work

Less remorse more punishment – NUM obo Vangile v Eskom

National Union of Mineworkers obo Vangile v Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd [2018] 5 BALR 534 (CCMA) What is an employer to do when it has (i)...

Is a fixed term contract really that fixed?

Currently employers believe that: if they prematurely terminate a fixed-term employment contract, they will have to pay the employee the remainder of contract; and they can only...

Fixed Term Contract

Sign on the dotted line

Employees wanting to pursue cases for unfair dismissal in either the CCMA or various Bargaining Councils typically kick-start the process by completing and signing the...

dispute referral

Is your workplace “a lonely hearts club?”

In Rustenburg Platinum Mines Limited v UASA obo Steve Pietersen the Labour Court, delivered a scathing judgment wherein it criticised a CCMA commissioner for taking...

sexual harassment

Desertion from the workplace – Who decides?

Employers are often confused as to when employees are deemed to have deserted the workplace. Should employers wait a mandatory number of days before declaring...

Manyi ordered to pay the money – Failure to follow retrenchment proceedings

Labour Court orders DSTV News Channel: Afro Worldview to follow retrenchment procedures after being shut down. It is well-known that employers are legally obliged to issue...

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