Employment law across Africa moved this year. In forty-five minutes we walk through the five situations that most often turn into a claim, and what a well-run HR team does differently. Bring the case that is on your desk right now.
Each mistake comes with a real (anonymised) scenario, the provision it breaches, and the step that would have avoided the claim.
Rolling renewals without a justifiable reason, and the moment the law starts treating the employee as permanent, with all the protection that brings.
The employee simply carried on. Why silence at the end of probation is one of the most expensive habits in HR, and the one-page process that fixes it.
A fair reason is not enough. What a hearing, notice and the right to respond actually need to look like before a dismissal will hold up.
Retrenchment and redundancy have a sequence. Skip a step and the whole exercise can be unwound, with back pay attached.
Restraints of trade, notice periods, deductions and termination clauses that were valid where they were drafted and are unenforceable where they are used.
The last ten minutes are yours. Ask about a contract, a dismissal or a reform in your country and we will work through it live.
When someone needs to be let go, a contract needs fixing or a union letter arrives, HR gets the question before the lawyer does. This session is for the people who have to answer it.
CIELA has been running for more than eleven years. The Africa Track is the first edition written entirely around African jurisdictions and the reforms now in force, covering South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana and Morocco in depth and the principles that carry across other Anglophone and Francophone African countries. Seven modules, six months, fully online, built around the work you already do.
Founder, Law Pundits Global
Vishnu founded Law Pundits in 2011 and created the CIELA certification, which HR professionals and lawyers in more than 40 countries have completed since. A lawyer by training, he also convenes the Global Legal Forum in The Hague, where employment law has its own track. He built the Africa Track with practitioners on the ground.
It has been a very fruitful learning experience. Once again, thank you very much for your services.
I came in wanting to stop second-guessing myself every time a manager asked about a termination. The modules on contracts and dismissal gave me the structure I was missing.
Yes. There is no fee and no obligation. We spend five minutes near the end describing the CIELA Africa Track and what comes with it, for those who want to know more, and that is the extent of it.
Register anyway. Everyone who registers receives the recording and the checklist within a day of the session.
No. The session is designed for HR professionals. If you are a lawyer or in-house counsel you are welcome too; the Q&A tends to be useful for both.
The examples come from South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana and Morocco, and the principles apply across most of the continent. Tell us your country when you register and we will try to include it in the Q&A.
The session runs on GoToWebinar. Your personal joining link arrives by email as soon as you register, with a reminder an hour before we start. You can join from a browser, no download needed.
Wednesday, 23 September 2026 · 16:00 WAT · Online · Free. Seats are limited so we can take everyone's questions.
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