Labour-law advice for employers and executive-level matters.
Workplace decisions have legal and operational consequences. HRA assists primarily employers and selected executive-level employees with employment contracts, policies, disciplinary processes, restructuring and labour disputes.
Brief initial telephone discussion at no charge. A paid consultation is arranged where appropriate. Attorney follow-up is ordinarily within one working day.
Which issue brings you here?
Contracts and workplace rules
Drafting and reviewing appropriate employment agreements.
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Preparation and support for fair, evidence-led disciplinary processes.
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Advice on proposed restructuring and applicable processes.
View serviceA dismissal or dispute already referred
Advice on the forum, procedure and whether legal representation is permitted.
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Unfair Dismissal & CCMA Representation
Advice on the forum, procedure and whether legal representation is permitted.
Employment Contracts
Drafting and reviewing appropriate employment agreements.
Retrenchment
Advice on proposed restructuring and applicable processes.
Disciplinary Hearings
Preparation and support for fair, evidence-led disciplinary processes.
Advice that considers process as well as substance
Tshepo Mohapi is an attorney and labour-law consultant. His experience includes employment policies and manuals, disciplinary hearings, CCMA and bargaining-council arbitration, and Labour Court matters.
The appropriate role may involve advice, preparation, chairing a process or representation where allowed. Those roles are not interchangeable: an independent chair must not be presented as acting as one party's representative in the same hearing.
HRA also assesses selected senior-employee enquiries, including complex contract, disciplinary, termination and restructuring issues. An initial discussion helps determine fit and scope.
Locate your matter in the process
Internal decision or hearing
Workplace process and policy.
Referral to a dispute-resolution forum
CCMA, bargaining council or applicable forum.
Court proceedings or review
Labour Court or review where applicable.
These are possible contexts, not mandatory consecutive stages. The forum, stage and applicable rules affect the advice.
Information to prepare
Identify whether you act for the employer or as an employee, your role, the workplace issue, the stage of any process and any dates already set. An employment contract, applicable policies, notices and short timeline may be requested later.
Common mistakes to avoid
Do not assume an internal policy overrides the legal process, that every workplace dispute belongs at the CCMA, or that legal representation is automatically available at every conciliation or arbitration. The forum and rules must be checked.
Attorney authority
Tshepo Mohapi
Attorney & Labour Law Consultant
Employment policies, disciplinary hearings, CCMA and bargaining-council arbitration, and Labour Court matters.
View profileThe firm is not the CCMA and does not offer an online CCMA application service.
Frequently asked questions
Do you focus on employers or employees?
Can an attorney represent me at the CCMA?
Can you assist before disciplinary action starts?
Can workplace mediation be considered?
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Tell us your role, the stage of the matter and any approaching date.
This website provides general information, not legal advice. Sending an enquiry does not by itself create an attorney-client relationship. Each matter is assessed on its own facts.