Legal compliance in workplace restructuring and retrenchment

Overview

What you will study

• While providing guidance on how to comply with the LRA in the restructuring process, the Legal compliance in workplace restructuring and retrenchment course offered by University of Cape Town will primarily encourage an employee-conscious focus. Participants will be prompted to properly assess whether retrenchment is necessary, to assess the impact of the retrenchments on the loyalty of remaining employees, to think clearly about alternatives to retrenchment, to ensure that both outplaced and remaining employees are given the support they require, to make sure that consideration is given to upskilling or reskilling, and to consider the CCMA’s Training Layoff Scheme.

• Alan Rycroft is a qualified attorney, accredited arbitrator and mediator. Since 1983 he has been a law teacher, initially at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, where from 1995 to 2000 he was dean of the Faculty of Law. He moved to UCT in 2009, where he held the Chair in Commercial Law. 

• Practising and teaching initially in maritime law, he developed an interest in labour law, and has published widely in this area. For many years he was one of the co-organisers of the Annual Labour Law Conference. 
• Arising from his interest in labour law is an involvement in dispute resolution. He has been a part-time senior commissioner at the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA). He has also served on the panel of arbitrators for the SA Local Government Association.