What Is an Employer of Record (EOR)? A Plain-English Guide

You’ve found great talent in another country, South Africa, say, and you want to hire them. Then reality hits: you don’t have a legal entity there, you don’t understand the local labour law, and setting all that up sounds slow and expensive. So how do people actually do it? The answer, increasingly, is an Employer […]
How to Update Your Parental Leave Policy for the 2026 Regime

If you have not yet updated your parental leave policy, you are already behind. On 3 October 2025, the Constitutional Court handed down a unanimous judgment in Van Wyk and Others v Minister of Employment and Labour that fundamentally rewrote the rules and the changes took effect immediately. Not “from a date to be proclaimed”, […]