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Qantas Group Outlines Strategy for Restarting International Flights
Gradual restart planned around National Cabinet’s phased reopening of international borders. Current date of December 2021 remains in reach, based on pace of vaccine rollout. Plans remain dependent on Government decisions in coming months, including future quarantine...
QANTAS’ vaccine reward campaign
The Qantas Group is launching its reward campaign for COVID-19 vaccinated Australians to recognise their role in helping the country get out of lockdown. From tomorrow, fully vaccinated Australian-based Frequent Flyers who are 18 and over will be able to claim their...
QANTAS Group requiring Employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19
The Qantas Group will require all employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as part of the national carrier’s commitment to safety. Frontline employees – including cabin crew, pilots and airport workers – will need to be fully vaccinated by 15 November 2021...
Fasken News
Please review the latest Fasken firm news coverage, including information on their groundbreaking client work as well as media interviews with Fasken’s leading practitioners. Also included is other interesting information which might be relevant to all our ABCSA...
Digital health pass will be the ticket to fly for Qantas and JetStar flights
The Qantas Group has today confirmed it will work with the International Air Transport Association (IATA) to rollout a digital health pass when regular Qantas and Jetstar international flights resume. The decision to proceed with IATA follows trials of several digital...
Ready. Set. Go! Safely returning to travel in 2021
Your Questions Answered! Are you ready to trade the endless Zoom face galleries for some creative sparring with clients and colleagues in the boardroom? You are not alone. With Zoom fatigue now a common ‘affliction’, most of us are wistfully longing for the...
Travelling during the Covid-19 pandemic
By Oz Desai, GM Corporate Traveller After a tough and uncertain year, it appears that South African corporates are ready to take to the skies again and conduct business with partners across the world face-to-face. We have seen corporate travel business in South...
Qantas Group Announcement
Qantas Group Half Year Results and update on recovery Dear ABCSA Members, Qantas continues to navigate the impacts of the COVID crisis with a significant half year loss reported today that reflects the conditions we faced in the six months to the end of 2020. Our...
The Low Touch Consumer by Ian Bessarabia
Change is Inevitable There are going to be fundamental changes in just about every aspect of our daily lives, impacting industry dynamics, technology, regulations and human behaviour. THE post-COVID-19 era will have an economy shaped by new habits and regulations,...
The Corona Virus – Safety Tips
Shareholder recourse for a director’s breach of fiduciary duties
A company’s board of directors bears the responsibility for the functioning and management of the company and is ultimately accountable for the company’s performance. In terms of the South African common law and the Companies Act, 2008 (“Companies Act“), directors have certain fiduciary duties. But what happens when the directors breach those duties? What are the rights of the shareholders in that instance?
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Taxpayer’s appeal upheld due to SARS’ tardiness
An inordinate delay in finalising a tax dispute can have a severely prejudicial effect on a taxpayer who is obliged to pay first and argue later. The recent decision by the Tax Court in F Taxpayer v The Commissioner for the South African Revenue Service[1] has shown that the courts will be loathe to condone excessive delays by the South African Revenue Service (the “SARS”) during the dispute resolution process.
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Data Privacy
The Information Regulator keeps an eye out on the Department of Health’s compliance
On 22 April 2022, the Information Regulator (“the Regulator”) issued a media statement calling upon the National Department of Health (“the Health Department”) to provide it with information demonstrating the Health Department’s compliance with the Protection of Personal Information Act, 3 of 2014 (“POPIA”).
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The Employer’s Taking Over of the Works under FIDIC clauses 10.1 and 10.2
Clause 10 of the International Federation of Consulting Engineers suite of construction contracts (the “FIDIC Contracts”), which deals with “Employer’s Taking Over”, can be a difficult section of the FIDIC Contracts to navigate.
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New BCEA Earnings Threshold
On 9 February 2022, the Minister of Employment and Labour published his determination of a new earnings threshold under the Basic Conditions of Employment Act, 1997.
With effect from 1 March 2022, the threshold will increase from the current R211 596.30 pa (equivalent to R17 633.03 per month) to R224 080.48 (equivalent to R18 673.37 per month).
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