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Fasken

Employment

Global Guide 2026 : South Africa

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Appropriately navigating the labour, employment, and human rights landscapes is essential to attracting, retaining, and motivating your employees and by extension successfully maintaining and developing your business.

Our Labour, Employment & Human Rights (LEHR) lawyers work with clients to provide proactive, pragmatic and cost-effective advice. Whether you need help to conclude innovative collective agreements or create risk management and compliance programs, we have the in-depth knowledge and experience required. In the event disputes arise, we will help you defuse tension among stakeholders and skillfully represent your interests in court, before tribunals or at arbitration.

In addition to our extensive Canadian presence and experience, we boast highly qualified and detailed-oriented LEHR lawyers in Johannesburg, South Africa, as well as connections to experts around the world, which enables us to help employers from all facets of industry and government, wherever they operate.

At Fasken, we act for numerous prominent foreign corporations, providing specialized advice and representation in adapting their human resources strategies to the Canadian and South African environments.

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Employment - South Africa

Band 3

What the Team is Known For

Fasken is particularly noted for providing employment advice to clients in the mining and natural resources industries, with further activity in the energy and manufacturing sectors. The team is well recognised for its impressive work in pensions and benefits and related litigation, with extensive experience in collective bargaining, industrial action and dismissals. The firm also provides counsel on issues involving employee discipline and health and safety risks. Furthermore, it is well versed in handling employment due diligence as well as the employment and labour repercussions of M&A and corporate restructuring.

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Work Highlights

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  • Fasken represented Alfa Laval before the Equality Court in an unfair discrimination claim brought by two former employees.

Strengths

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  • The Fasken team has deep industry knowledge in this field.

    Employment respondentGlobal

  • The advice the law firm provides always takes all legalities, scenarios and possible outcomes into consideration.

    Employment respondentGlobal

  • Fasken's service is great and response time is excellent. The team is very supportive and prompt.

    Employment respondentGlobal

  • The firm offers an excellent service and team of professionals.

    Employment respondentGlobal

  • The team possesses expertise in different fields of employment law.

    Employment respondentGlobal

Notable Practitioners

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  • Ludwig Frahm-Arp
    Ludwig Frahm-Arp

    Ludwig Frahm-Arp

    Ludwig Frahm-Arp provides guidance to his clients on issues such as industrial action, as well as acting on labour relations and unfair labour practices disputes. He regularly acts for clients in the mining sector.

    • Ludwig Frahm-Arp is a great, excellent and humble individual to work with.

      Employment respondentGlobal

    • He is exceptional and provides great service.

      Employment respondentGlobal
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  • Paul Fouché
    Paul Fouché

    Paul Fouché

    Paul Fouché provides contentious and advisory counsel to his employer clients on labour relationships and industrial action, dismissals and workplace health and safety. He also provides guidance on the employment aspects of restructurings and retrenchments.

    • Paul Fouché possesses exceptional legal expertise and unwavering dedication to his clients.

      Employment respondentGlobal

    • Paul consistently demonstrates a profound understanding of the law, coupled with remarkable analytical and problem-solving skills.

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  • Rosemary Hunter
    Rosemary Hunter

    Rosemary Hunter

    Rosemary Hunter is a well-known practitioner with a solid reputation for assisting clients with pensions and benefits mandates.

    • Rosemary Hunter is very well versed in the subject matter.

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