The course content addresses the following topics:
- Collective labour law and the constitution
- Collective labour law and the global context
- Freedom of association and collective bargaining
- Jurisdiction (including guidelines for conducting jurisdiction applications and writing jurisdictional rulings)
- Council for Conciliation, Mediation, and Arbitration (CCMA), bargaining councils and statutory councils, trade unions and employer organisations, workplace forums
- Organisational rights, the right to strike, lockouts, union security arrangements
- Dispute resolution processes in collective labour law disputes
- Rulings pertaining to employment relationships, including the distinction between employees and independent contractors, dealing with labour brokers, outsourcing, franchise agreements, defining an employer in the context of Section 197, and dealing with unlawful contracts
- Rulings pertaining to the time violations including rules of referrals, service and the requirements for proof thereof and condonation