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Further to the usual partying of the festive season, it is also a time where many couples schedule weddings to celebrate tying the knot. The huge pressure and strain that comes with organising and putting together a wedding more often leaves some little but important details unattended to. Unfortunately for some, the importance of these minor details only becomes manifest when the spouses are already in their new home.
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In the English language vocabulary context, accrual means what has been accrued or gained. In the legal context, the same meaning does apply and in the context of matrimonial property systems, accrual means what has been added to or gained apart from what has been there before.
The Labour Laws Amendment Act 10 of 2018 (LLAA) amended the Basic Conditions of Employment Act 75 of 1997 with regards to categories of leave, as well as unemployment insurance (UIA). It introduced the parental, adoption and commissioning parental (surrogacy) leave. This means that employees are now legally entitled to these types of leave in suitable circumstances. While maternity leave is for female employees who give birth, parental leave is much broader and is inclusive of fathers in heterosexual relationships, females in same sex relationships, or males in same sex relationships.
The Cybercrimes Act 19 of 2020 was signed into law in May 2021, and will become effective on the commencement day identified once published in the gazette. The Act seeks to improve security in the cyberspace by codifying activity identified as offences and requiring entities that store communication and financial information to report any activity that amounts to criminality. The need for such a law resonates with the growing use of cyber systems, programs, and applications. In other words there is growing presence of users on the cyberspace everyday and in turn, increase in criminal activity is a natural result.
Since the signing into law and commencement of the Labour Laws Amendment Act 10 of 2018 (LLAA), employees are now entitled to adoption, parental and commissioning parental leave (surrogacy) as per the amended Basic Conditions of Employment Act 75 of 1997 (BCEA).
While the Cybercrimes Act 19 of 2020 seeks to combat cyber crimes, the Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013 (POPIA) seeks to protect the privacy of personal information gathered and processed by responsible parties.
In this brief article, we will consider the interaction between these two pieces of legislation.
South Africa’s Labour and/or Employment regulation landscape is on an advancement path, if anything about the Labour Laws Amendment Act 10 of 2018 (LLAA) is to go by.
With bliss, anticipation and love abound, it is almost uncomfortable for a couple that is about to get married to discuss the possible dynamics around which the marriage may likely end. It is indeed an uncomfortable discussion, but one that is necessary and in best interest if looked at from the right perspective. We all wish for good things, but good things sometimes do not last.
The importance of having an Information Officer in a company has never become so necessary than in the past year or so in South Africa. This period saw the coming into operation of the Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013 (POPIA) and assenting to of the Cybercrimes Act 19 of 2020 by the President.
South African matrimonial property regulation recognises three distinct regimes being the marriage in Community of Property, Out of Community of Property with the Accrual system and the Out of Community of Property without the Accrual system.
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