A critical analysis of the law relating to the fairness of promotion of employees

Abstract

The issue of promotion in the workplace has become a subject of discussion these days. As this issue is sensitive and important to both employers and employees it will always bring about conflicting interacts and rights between the two parties. Promotion of employees in the workplace helps the employers to fill up vacant posts and at the same time helps some employees to move up the ladder or get promoted and thereby improving their livelihood or living conditions. In the process of doing this, some employees who did not succeed will feel disappointed and challenge the employer’s decision in the bargaining councils or Commission for Conciliation Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) and even in courts. This dissertation has been extensively researched and supplemented accordingly by incorporating the latest case law in promotional disputes in the shop floor in court or arbitration proceedings. Both employers and employees will find the information contained in this comprehensive and reliable work an indispensible guide to a complex and yet interesting area of law. This work deals with promotion in the workplace in general and the manner in which employers should handle them in order to avoid unnecessary promotion disputes which are often protracted and costly and on how these disputes should be dealt with successfully once they arise.