VARYING AN EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT- MY RIGHT OR OUR RIGHT?

Under the common law, employment contacts were largely characterized as master-servant relationships. As a master, wielding an ostensible power over the servant, an employer had the right to engage and terminate at any time (for reason or no reason at all); unilaterally stipulate, remove or change the terms of employment at its sole discretion even […]

COVID-19 AND THE WORLD OF WORK- THE EMERGING ISSUES

In the face of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, which is reported to have recorded over one million cases and over sixty thousand deaths around the world, several countries have been forced to take drastic decisions in a desperate bid to curtail further spread of the virus. The ravaging effect of the COVID-19 has had far […]