Imraan Mahomed

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 Imraan regularly advises executive management on their strategic and business critical employment related issues.

Imraan has also lead a number of business due diligence exercises, across various industries, with a focus on issues related to employment, retirement funds and immigration.

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.

Imraan has been involved in several matters representing businesses where political parties have sought to intrude in workplace affairs. Imraan has assisted in the interaction with the political parties in resolving matters or where not possible in securing interdicts against the political parties to avoid their advance in workplace affairs.

When it comes to restructuring operations of multinationals with operations in South Africa, Imraan has worked with various global clients to rationalise their local operations especially in difficult trading conditions. This would include advice on how to deal with unions and employee representatives in large scale redundancies.

Imraan has over the years worked with employment law colleagues from across the globe on matters in the domestic market and also in other parts of Africa.

With the privatization of portions or parts of the South African economy, Imraan has advised a range of clients in employment related aspects of privitization initiatives which impact business at the stage of tender submission through to the actual transaction.  

Imraan is often retained by employers to advise on how to manage executive terminations from the point of concept to effecting the actual termination and thereafter dealing with post termination litigation.

Imraan has acted as the initiator of internal proceedings for several employers in varying industries and from time to time takes on the opportunity to also chair internal processes on behalf of employers or preside over the appeal stage of internal processes.