Managing the Retrenchment and Severance Benefits Act
A thoroughgoing examination of the Retrenchment and Severance Benefits Act and its implications for workers and employers
Objective of Programme:
To enable managers to understand their obligations under the Act and to correctly calculate workers’ entitlements.
Duration: One Day
Target Group:
Human Resource personnel and those managers whose responsibility it is to calculate employee benefits and entitlements
Expected outcome: Participants will be able to:-
- Understand the purpose and structure of the Retrenchment and Severance Benefits Act
- Recognise the Obligations of employers under the Act
- Calculate workers’ entitlements under the Act
- Understand landmark judgments of the Industrial Court and the Privy Council relative to the Act



