About Zwane Legal

Zwane Incorporated Attorneys (Zwane Inc) is renowned for delivering client-focused, strategic, practical, and solutions-based advice. Our dedicated team supports your organization in assessing and managing employment-related issues and risks.

We serve companies across all sectors, including private organizations and public sector clients at all levels of government. Our cross-border service ensures that we partner with our clients to provide comprehensive guidance on employment issues.

Zwane Inc. boasts extensive experience in a wide range of employment matters, including large-scale restructurings, mergers and acquisitions, redundancies, and business transfers. We also advise on collective disputes, disciplinary hearings, employee benefits and incentives, and mine health and safety.

Our firm’s structure allows us to leverage the specialist know-how of lawyers from various practice areas, providing our clients with a fully integrated service. We collaborate with you to devise workplace relations and employment strategies tailored to your business and industry needs.

our services

employment law

Our team represents clients in all employment-related forums, including the CCMA, Labour Court, High Court, and Constitutional Court, as well as dealings with the Department of Labour.

We specialize in unfair dismissals, labour practices, discrimination, organisational rights, strikes, wage disputes, and more.

Zwane Inc. also offers alternative dispute resolution services, including chairing hearings, mediating disputes, and supporting collective bargaining.

forensics

At Zwane Inc., our expert multi-disciplinary forensics team excels in complex investigations, specializing in anti-corruption, bribery, fraud, and white-collar crime. We employ advanced techniques to uncover the truth and provide valuable insights to our clients.

In addition to investigations, we offer thorough background checks, employee screening, and lifestyle audits. We prioritize due diligence and risk management, ensuring reliable results that empower organizations to make informed decisions. Your trust and security are our top priorities.

personal injury

We specialize in claims for the Road Accident Fund and Train Accidents. Our experienced team is dedicated to assisting you throughout the claims process, ensuring you receive the support and compensation you deserve. Your well-being is our top priority.

medical malpractice

Medical malpractice occurs when a public or private health-care provider fails to adhere to the recognized or expected "standard of care" in treating a patient, resulting in harm to the patient. Our specialist team is here to assist you in pursuing a valid claim against the responsible health-care provider.

training

At Zwane Inc, we inform clients about employment legislation and regulations through seminars, newsletters, and alerts. We offer customized training on disciplinary hearings and arbitrations, and develop compliance checklists to help minimize employment disputes.

drafting

We draft a wide range of agreements, reports, policies, guidelines and procedures
including: contracts, agreements, restraints of trade, disciplinary and grievance
procedures, warning and dismissal notices, lock-out notices and ultimatums, and codes
on sexual harassment, retrenchment, picketing and social networking, among others.

consulting

We provide expert advice on non-litigious employment law matters and commercial issues with employment implications, including compliance with the Companies Act, No 71 of 2008. Our services cover corporate restructuring, retrenchment, trade union consultations, severance packages, and representation at the CCMA or bargaining council. We also specialize in business transfers, merger impacts on employees, and regulatory obligations, with particular expertise in disciplinary proceedings and performance management.

auditing

Our Employment team can undertake statutory or collective agreement compliance
audits, including assessing the compliance of terms and conditions of employment with
the Basic Conditions of Employment Act, No 75 of 1997, collective agreements, arbitration
awards and Labour Court rulings.

Our clients