Labour Law for Managers
Three points to avoid in your employment contracts

Do you use long-winded legalese in your employment contracts just to cover yourself? Well, don’t! Chances are it’ll only lead to confusion and conflict when you have a dispute with your employee because the meaning isn’t clear and simple. Find out how to manage this and the two other common mistakes you must avoid making with your employment contracts.
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Practical Tax Handbook
Accurate documents can save you time and money starting today!

In all likelihood, your business pays a fortune in tax when it’s simply NOT necessary… especially when accurate record keeping can save you from ruin. And SARS knows it! The only way to rightfully defend yourself is to present SARS with accurate records. If you can’t do this for just one of your claims, SARS doubts ALL your other claims as well. The Practical Tax Handbook is your key. It gives you everything you need to make your tax compliance easy.
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Practical Guide to Human Resources Management
Your survival guide to employee performance reviews

Do you dread doing performance reviews? How do you tell someone he’s not performing without demotivating him? How do you get an excellent performer to improve even more? It doesn’t need to be as nerve-wracking as you think.
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Simplify Your Tax newsletter
Are you ready for your tax assessment and annual tax audit by SARS?

I’d like to show you how to save hundreds, maybe thousands, of rands in tax. I will put the power of tax specialists behind you, and it’s all free for 14 days. With SARS’ four year plan, tax assessments will be increased by 30%, annual SARS audits will be increased to 72 500 and the success rate of investigative audits will also be increased to 70%. How do you stay on top of new tax laws, amendments and practice notes? It’s not as difficult as it sounds and I’ll show you a quick way to keep your hard earned money in your pocket, and away from SARS…

 
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Health & Safety Advisor
*Ring ring* “There’s a bomb in your building!” … The line goes dead… What do you do?

It’s your duty as the employer to prepare for evacuation emergencies like this, whether it’s a prank or the real thing. And if you’re not, you’re placing your employees in danger. Protect them and yourself.
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Labour Watch Newsletter
How to solve all your labour and HR problems for less than R1.90

Do you spend thousands on phone calls to your labour consultant to get answers to your questions? Or spend hours trying to find answers yourself? Here’s how you can handle labour and HR issues yourself in just a few minutes a month for less than R1.90 a day. No more wading through countless information sources to keep up-to-date: Labour Watch will do it all for you.
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Vat Handbook
Vat Myth Number 43: “Vat doesn’t apply to my payroll”

Many employers fail to pay over Vat on their employees’ company car fringe benefits. SARS auditors are always on the lookout for this (and many other) mistake. But don’t despair! A solution is near. The Practical Vat Handbook is your myth buster of choice Order your copy of South Africa’s premium Vat myth-buster today.
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Are you going to pay more tax on your employer’s contribution?

The big news this week is the change in taxation of medical aid contributions. From March 2010, the cap amounts no longer apply when calculating income tax fringe benefits, and in particular, the tax on the employer’s contribution.
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Is Ozzy Osbourne your health and safety example?

The story of Ozzy Osbourne biting the head off a live bat at a concert has to be one of the most notorious stories in Rock ‘n Roll (and this is quite achievement for a music genre that literally delights in this kind of behaviour).

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Five tax changes you probably won’t like…

I don’t want to bore you with the finer details of Mr Gordhan’s recent budget speech. But I do want to highlight five of the things he mentioned, because they’ll mean higher taxes for you and me.
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YOU said it…

I was very pleased with your vociferous response to my question in last week’s bulletin. Surprisingly, there wasn’t the expected unanimous “YES” when I asked whether we should do what New Zealand is planning, and ban smoking completely. I wanted to share everyone’s comments, and a few readers very kindly gave permission for us to reproduce what they had to say here…
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Invaluable advice in your latest issue of Labour Watch

Tracy King is normally ‘behind the scenes’ in our department, but I think, with her knowledge of labour law (and her ability to keep her finger on the pulse of things), she’s the perfect editor for the Labour Watch newsletter. And so, she takes over from the next issue, heading up our team of experts on the Labour Team.
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Is SARS in your good books?

I caught last week’s episode of Carte Blanche Consumer, which highlighted the fact that filing taxes is still a nightmare for many South African taxpayers. The biggest complaint was that SARS employees are incompetent, and it’s near impossible to get help on tax issues.
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You can’t smoke in your own car!

You should have received your first health and safety update for this year. You’ll see we’ve included the very important amendments Government made to the Tobacco Products Control Act on the 21st of August last year. There’ve been some very interesting (and prohibitive) developments!

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I knew Chloe would lose at the CCMA if she rushed into the dismissal!

I had book club last night (I use the term loosely, because discussing books isn’t a big part of it), and my friend, Chloe, told me about an issue she was having at work. She’s pretty senior in her company, and manages quite a big team. But, as I found out, the perks of her well-paying job don’t necessarily outweigh the problems!
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Ever feel like doing taxes is giving you grey hairs?

Turnover tax is a relatively new tax (it’s only been available to small businesses in South Africa for about a year). SARS implemented this new tax system to try and reduce the administrative burden on small businesses in South Africa.
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7 ways to prevent exposure of dangerous substances

Do you remember the explosion that occurred at the Bloed Street Mall last month? A recent investigation into the incident revealed that liquid petroleum gas (LPG) escaped from the gas line, causing the explosion. At least seven people were injured during the blast, and the damages cost an estimated R400 000.  Human error was to blame…
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Real-life case studies are more interesting than fiction!

Wow! Who knew learning about management could be so interesting. I’m doing HR at the moment, and we have a phenomenal lecturer (I’m working on him to be a part of our upcoming seminars), and he’s full of entertaining anecdotes about his work experience. I know you’re probably thinking, “whatever!” but I’m not kidding when I say he literally had us on the edge of our seats on Monday night, telling us a true story about a big South African company. We’d run 15 minutes over the lecture time and none of us wanted to leave until he finished his story...
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SARS updates its dictionary — and it’s about time

This past week, SARS announced that it’s expanded its definition of the term ‘handicap’ (with effect from 1 March 2009). People with disabilities (or those who care for them) will be able to claim significant tax deductions on their medical expenses.
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Don’t conduct an HSE audit… until you read this!

You know the saying, “a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing”? In health and safety, this is sometimes scarily applicable. For instance, you know that it’s good business practice to conduct an audit once a year, so you faithfully do this annually.

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Tackle the CCMA with confidence - by being 100% prepared

CCMA for Managers is your ultimate A-Z guide to the CCMA. You’ll benefit from 178 pages packed with handy advice, answers to common questions, useful tips, checklists and step-by-step instructions. With this guide at your side, you’ll know exactly what steps to take at every stage of the CCMA process.
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235 reasons you’ll love Vat

There’s more to Vat than finding ways to evade it! I’m talking about: 1. Giving your business a serious cash injection by getting all your input tax from SARS and 2. SARS preparing to penalise you during an audit...and finding you’re 100% prepared for them You can beat SARS at their own game! We’ll make Vat your business’s new best friend with these and 233 other sizzling, need-to-know tips.
 
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384 annoying HR questions you'll NEVER have to answer again!

Are you constantly running around trying to find answers to labour and HR questions that come up in your day-to-day dealings with staff?These nagging questions often require you to answer on the spot and you can’t afford to sit on the telephone to the Department of Labour or wade through the labour Acts. With this ultimate HR and labour tool, you can empower your managers to deal with everyday HR and labour issues themselves.
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Cut your recruitment costs by 45%

If you’ve ever had to draw up a job description, you’ll know how long it can take… a couple of hours… a day… do you even know where to start? Or maybe you pay a Consultant by the hour to create them for you. Here’s the cheapest and quickest way to get them done.
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One easy way to make sure your documentation is 100% correct

Are you looking for an easy way to make sure all your employment contracts, recruitment, disciplinary and grievance processes, and company policies and procedures documents are all 100% correct? Take the agony out of writing company policies, completing grievance forms and recruiting new employees... at a fraction of the cost.
 
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*Knock knock* The Labour Inspector arrives unannounced… are you ready?

In terms of Section 30 of the BCEA, summaries of the BCEA, OHSA and EEA must be in clear view for employees to see. This will be the first thing the inspector will look out for when he’s paying an unscheduled visit to your workplace.  If you are missing one or all of these summaries, he will slap you with a fine. Don’t get caught without them. Act now and order your wall charts today!
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Three points to avoid in your employment contracts

Do you use long-winded legalese in your employment contracts just to cover yourself? Well, don’t! Chances are it’ll only lead to confusion and conflict when you have a dispute with your employee because the meaning isn’t clear and simple. Find out how to manage this and the two other common mistakes you must avoid making with your employment contracts.
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Discover 144 secrets that made Blanchard, Branson, Trump and Sunter so effective!

Just 44 minutes of your time could get you the same kind of practical, real-life management advice you'd get brainstorming with brilliant industry leaders, without investing the time or money you'd spend attending conferences and seminars or reading all those bulky management books!
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Discover in the next 5 minutes, a trick to do half the work and achieve much more...

Do you waste time chasing after your poor performers when you just want to get out and do what’s important? Use these proven shortcuts to get you ahead faster.
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