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In the digital age, social media platforms have become a valuable and effective tool as most companies make use of social media platforms to market themselves, interact directly with clients and to grow a company’s brand.
The Advertising Standards Authority (“ASA”) has a Code of Advertising Practice (“the Code”). The Code sets out guidelines and/or principles which must be complied with when advertising.
In modern day society, most companies make use of social media platforms to market themselves and to grow the company’s brand.
Have ever found yourself in a situation where you have to read an agreement and after spending a good amount of time reading the agreement, you realise that you have not understood what you have just read?
Companies use online platforms to interact, create and share content online to promote their products and services, raise their company’s profile as it gets the company’s name and brand out into the public domain and to make it easily accessible to its customers.
AB Company and Bob conclude a settlement Agreement (“the Agreement”) and his employment relationship with AB Company terminates.
South Africa’s Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (“CCMA”) has accepted in recent cases that employees may be dismissed for posting false, derogatory remarks about their employers or employers clients on Facebook, Twitter or other social networks or blogs, as these posts might harm the ongoing employment relationship, bring the employers name into disrepute and may equate to a form of misconduct.
The newly formed Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (“CIPC”), established “with the aim of promoting growth, employment, innovation, stability, good governance, confidence and international competitiveness.”
