Owethu Mbambo is a partner in the Labour, Employment and Human Rights practice group. Her practice focus includes general employment advice inclusive of:
Preparing and reviewing employment contracts, company policy and practise documents and all employment related agreements; advising clients on the implementation of employment related policy and practice documents; and advising clients on various employment aspects pertaining to mergers and acquisitions as well as retrenchments and restructurings.
Experience
- Appearing in the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration
- Part of a team conducting investigations and preparing reports on behalf of a Company
- Part of a team assisting clients in preparing for strike related issues
- Part of a team assisting clients with retrenchments under sections 189 and 189A of the LRA
- Part of a team advising clients on various consequences of business transfers in terms of section 197 of the LRA
- Providing training to employees on how to conduct grievance and disciplinary hearings
- Drafting of pleadings, affidavits, notices, opinions and correspondences
- Part of teams assisting clients with bringing urgent strike interdicts in the Labour Court
- Part of a team assisting an employee in the construction industry in a health and safety inquiry in relation to a fatality
