Lucinda Hinxman

Practice Areas

Employment, Labour & Pensions

Career

Lucinda Hinxman is a sought-after employment, labour and health and safety lawyer with more than 11 years of experience. She is also the head of our South African Employment and Labour practice area specialising in litigious and non-litigious employment law.

Lucinda advises both local and multinational clients within various industries, such as the automative, technology, renewable energy, pharmaceutical, mining, aviation, financial, professional services and construction.

She advises and represents clients in all employment law related litigation, including internal enquiries, private arbitration, dispute resolution, statutory arbitration tribunals as well as in the Labour Court, Labour Appeal Court and Constitutional Court. She also advises and assists clients with internal investigations involving, inter alia, breaches of occupational health and safety, general employee misconduct, sexual harassment and/or discrimination.

In addition to employment law litigation, Lucinda advises clients in relation to occupational and mine health and safety, restructuring, transfers of employment as well as drafting all employment, employment related, agreements and workplace policies and procedures.

Professional Memberships

Admitted Attorney, High Court of South Africa

Member of the Legal Practice Council, Gauteng office

Member of the CMS Global Employment & Pensions Group Board

Member of South African Society for Labour Law (SASLAW)

Publications

Raising the Bar: Unpacking the BCEA’s Latest Wage Adjustment | 21 April 2026

Shared Care and Fair Work: Perspectives on the BCEA Amendment Bill | Law-Now | 9 March 2026

From Penalties to Rehabilitation: Understanding the 2026 COIDA Amendments and Its Impact on Workplace Risk | Law-Now | 13 February 2026

Mental Health in the Workplace: Best-Practice Guidelines for Employers | Business Explainer | 9 December 2025

International Court of Justice (ICJ) to Clarify the Right to Strike under ILO Convention 87: Implications for Global Employers | Law-Now | 24 October 2025

Equal Parenting Affirmed in the Constitutional Court's Landmark Judgment on Parental Leave | Law-Now | 8 October 2025

Building resilient economies: A call to action for South African businesses | Lifestyle & Tech | 21 August 2025

What businesses should know about South Africa’s Fair Pay Bill | Lexology Pro | 20 August 2025

Employment Equity Sectoral Targets and the Employment Equity Regulations, 2025 are here: what every employer needs to know | Law-Now | 17 April 2025

Global employers finding their space in South Africa: understanding the employment landscape | Law-Now | 8 April 2025

An Increase in the BCEA Earnings Threshold and National Minimum Wage | Law-Now | 14 March 2025

Experience

- African Parks Network - assisted as the lead legal advisors with a last-minute ‘lifeline’ in a major purchase and rhino rewilding project for 2,000 African rhinos.

- A multinational power generation and automation company with a full employment law service, which included but was not limited to conducting local and international forensic investigations into their various business units, preparing and representing the client in disciplinary and incapacity enquiries, employment equity disputes, sexual harassment disputes and trials in the Labour and Labour Appeal Courts.

- A multinational food and beverage company in a multinational merger in terms of which there was an international merger of two entities and a large transfer of employees from the old employer to the new employer.

- A mining company with large scale strike dismissal, in terms of which over 3000 employees were dismissed and who referred a dispute to the Labour Court and ultimately the Constitutional Court.

- A multinational pharmaceutical company with the sale of various of its businesses as well as the acquisition of certain businesses, including but not limited to, animal health-

- A multinational professional services company with a full employment law service, which included but was not limited to preparing and representing the client in disciplinary and incapacity enquiries, retrenchment exercises, harassment disputes and trials in the Labour Courts.

- An aviation company with a full employment law service, which included but was not limited to preparing and representing the client in disciplinary and incapacity enquiries, retrenchment exercises, as well as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the aviation industry and its employees.

- A large local pharmaceutical company and its subsidiaries with a full employment law service, which included but was not limited to preparing and representing the client in disciplinary and incapacity enquiries, multiple large scale equal pay for equal disputes in the CCMA and Labour Court, as well as trials within the Labour and Labour Appeal Court.

Languages Spoken

English

Education

Awards