Director
Imraan Mahomed is a Director in our Employment Law practice. Imraan joined the practice in late 2020 having led a lateral team move. With almost 20 years experience, Imraan advises on all aspects of employment law ranging from transactions, litigation, regulatory to compliance matters impacting employment. His input is also sought regularly by the media on current labour law issues. He has acted as a judge of the Labour Court on various occasions. Imraan has vast experience in dealing with issues affecting employers in contentious and non-contentious matters and provides strategies at collective and individual level. He also advises across the continent and has been the lead attorney in various precedent setting cases.
Imraan Mohamed joined Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr as a Director in 2020 having led a team move after the restructure of the Johannesburg office of Hogan Lovells. He has practiced in the field of employment law representing business for close to 20 years. Imraan commenced articles at Deneys Reitz (now Norton Rose Fulbright) in 2001 and became a director in its employment department. He left in 2007 to join Routledge Modise to expand its employment law offering which firm at some point rebranded as Hogan Lovells and eventually Lawtons Africa. Imraan has also advised clients in various jurisdictions across Africa.
Imraan has vast experience in dealing with all issues affecting employers in contentious and non-contentious matters. He provides clients with effective strategies on all employment related matters, both at collective and individual level. He advises and does training across various industries. Imraan has a keen interest in post-employment restrictive law and has been the lead attorney in a number of restraint of trade disputes. Imraan regularly advises executive management on their strategic and business critical employment related issues.
Imraan has over the years also built an expertise which extends to dealing with business crime preemptively as well as where it becomes contentious in representing businesses. Imraan has also represented senior executives in director, shareholder and employee related matters and conducted numerous workplace investigations. He has also advised across various industries on business restructures and strategies on managing union relationships as well as dealing with picket lines disputes and other forms of industrial action disputes.
Imraan has been the lead attorney on a number of employment related disputes which are reported judgements of the Labour Court, Labour Appeal Court and the Supreme Court of Appeal. Imraan was also consulted and provided input on a precedent setting case on anti-discriminatory workplace conduct, which was heard in the Constitutional Court.
Employment Law Director Imraan Mahomed joined eNews Channel Africa's Live at Lunchtime with Jeremy Maggs to discuss whether South African employers can impose mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policies as a pre-requisite to return to work or as a precondition for employment.
Unions have extensive rights under South African law. The rights of a union to bargain was however in 2020 curtailed by the Constitutional Court when the court found that a union was restricted to organising within the scope of its constitution. But can a union represent its members in litigation processes? This is where the members are employed in an industry which falls outside the scope of the unions constitution. The Labour Appeal Court has recently considered this question which is discussed in this podcast
Our Employment Law team hosted their first webinar where they reflected on 2021 and identified key themes for 2022.
With businesses preparing to resume as near to “normal” operations, as is possible, and with the rollout of covid-19 vaccinations worldwide, it is unlikely that the government will impose a mandatory vaccination program across the country. The question of mandating inoculation within the employee population will therefore need to be determined by individual employers on a case by case basis. A decision to be made sooner rather than later.
Employment Director Imraan Mahomed joined Bruce Whitfield on The Money Show on Talk Radio 702 to discuss the complexities of Treasury’s decision and commitment to cut the public service wage bill. The matter is before the Labour Appeal Court on 2 December 2020
