As an employment lawyer, Nadia Froneman specialises in all aspects of employment law, primarily representing employers.
She frequently represents her clients in disciplinary and incapacity enquiries and provides advice and opinions on all aspects of employment law. She is an expert in the education sector as well as the information technology sector. Nadia routinely provides value added services to clients such as training on topical issues affecting the employment relationship, thereby ensuring that clients are kept abreast of developments in the law which may affect their workplace and/or personnel.
Nadia has a particular interest in the commercial aspects of employment law, including corporate restructuring, retrenchments and the transfer of employees in circumstances where section 197 of the Labour Relations Act finds application.
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Nadia has been involved in a wide range of employment related disputes for leading tertiary education institutions, information technology companies and other clients. Her recent experience includes:
- successfully representing a telecommunications company in internal disciplinary hearings within Africa, including South Sudan and Rwanda
- assisting a client with embarking on several small scale and large-scale retrenchment processes as envisaged by section 189 of the Labour Relations Act
- assisting a client with negotiating and implementing several section 197 transfers as contemplated by that section in the Labour Relations Act, including drafting the section 197(7) agreements
- successfully launching an urgent application for a declaratory order declaring that section 197 of the Labour Relations Act finds application
- successfully defending an urgent application for a declaratory order declaring that section 197 of the Labour Relations Act finds application
- successfully opposing a review application in the labour Court
- part of the team who successfully defended an unfair dismissal claim in the CCMA in which the erstwhile employee was accused of gender based bullying and harassment
- Singapore Delegation to South Africa and Kenya, doing business in South Africa, May 2023
- Swiss Business Chamber of Commerce, doing business in South Africa, October 2023
- University of Johannesburg Employment Relations Seminar – speaker, September 2023
- Chartered Institute for Business Accountants NPC, Workplace Harassment Training, November 2023
- Dimension Data, Harassment Policy and Sexual Harassment Policy training, February 2023
- Anova Health Institute – Executive Committee Training, June 2023
- Anova Health Institute – Prevention and Elimination of Harassment in the Workplace, July 2023
- Legal 500 EMEA 2024 – recognised as a recommended individual
- Legal 500 EMEA 2024 – recognised as key lawyer
- Recognised by The Legal 500 in the EMEA 2023 edition as one of the recommended lawyers in Employment law
- Our Labour and Employment Department was recognized by The Legal 500 in the EMEA 2023 edition under Tier 3
- Nadia graduated with a BSocSci (law and organisational psychology) from Rhodes University in 2012 and in 2014 she obtained her LLB Degree cum laude
- She was admitted as an attorney of the High Court of South Africa in 2017