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Contracts, offer letters and probation terms that protect the business from day one, not just paperwork to get someone started.
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The legal position
Most labour disputes are decided on documents that were signed, or never signed, long before anything went wrong. These are the rules that shape them.
The BCEA requires every employee to receive written particulars of employment when they start: who the employer is, the job, where it is done, hours, pay, leave, notice and the other terms the Act lists. When the terms change, the written particulars must be updated to match.
BCEA s29The Code of Good Practice: Dismissal, in force since 4 September 2025, treats probation as a reasonable period to assess whether a new employee meets the standard. The employee must be told the standard, given feedback and support, and heard before probation ends in dismissal.
Code of Good Practice: Dismissal (2025)For employees earning below the BCEA earnings threshold, a fixed-term contract running longer than three months needs a justifiable reason, or the employee is treated as permanent. The same employees are presumed to be employees, not contractors, where the hallmarks of employment are present.
LRA s198B and s200AYou can only discipline fairly for breaking a rule the employee knew, or could reasonably be expected to know, and that is applied consistently. Clear, communicated policies are what make later discipline defensible.
Code of Good Practice: Dismissal (2025)Common mistakes
Almost all of these come down to a decision made without checking first. That is the part we fix.
What you get with ClearLine
Everything below sits in your member portal, against your own company and employee records, so the history is there when you need it.
More than 50 contracts, letters, warnings and policies, filled in with your company's and the employee's details and delivered as a finished document.
Included from Assist (2 documents per week), rising to 12 per month and then unlimited after 6 paid months on Premier. Available to buy individually on every package
Permanent, fixed-term, part-time and probationary contracts, and the core workplace policies, built for the BCEA and LRA rather than adapted from elsewhere.
Included from Professional (1 contract and 1 policy per month), rising to 10 contracts and 6 policies per month on Executive. Available to buy individually on every package.
Paste in a policy you already use and see it scored against the essentials South African labour law expects that kind of policy to cover, so you know what to fix first.
In the member portal
Have a legal advisor review a document you already have, or ask us to draft something the library does not cover. Custom drafting is quoted upfront, your package discount applies, and it is delivered within 5 business days with one round of changes included.
Reviews from Professional; custom drafting on any package, on quote
Ask Naledi, our online legal advisor, a routine question in plain language and get a straight answer immediately, with no waiting for a callback.
Every package, and free to try on this site
When a question is outside Naledi's scope, or you want a person to look at your specific facts, escalate it to a labour consultant through the portal and get a considered answer, not a guess.
From Professional, with more escalations per month on each higher package
How it works
Routine, settled questions get an immediate answer from Naledi, our online legal advisor.
Anything outside Naledi's scope goes to a senior legal advisor, who responds personally.
Matters that need an attorney go to our panel, under a separate mandate you enter directly with that firm.
FAQ
The BCEA requires written particulars of employment for every employee covered by it, from the day they start. A properly drafted contract is the simplest way to meet that requirement and to record the terms you will rely on if something goes wrong later.
You can, but generic contracts are often written for another jurisdiction or leave out terms the BCEA requires. Every document in the ClearLine library is built for South African labour law and filled in with your own details.
Library documents and custom drafting are delivered as finished PDF documents. If a term needs to change, update it in the portal and generate the document again, or ask for a custom document.
Get a straight answer from Naledi, free, or join and have a legal advisor and the attorney panel behind every decision.