The mindset of LabourDrive™ stems from its founder, Chris Haralambous, a Labour Relations and Business Law Attorney, with over 20 years’ experience in legal practice, who is also a qualified Arbitrator and Mediator. His passion for ER legal training and a desire to apply his professional insights from legal practice has led Chris towards developing a systematic digital support structure that merges his training modules which promote ER sound practice protocols with the business application side to ER compliance processes.

LabourDrive™ is all about Employment Relations (ER) legal process compliance and treating Employment Relations Management (ERM) as a critical function of business in South Africa. Why is Employment Relations Management a critical function of business? 

Essentially, ER legislation such as the Labour Relations Act (LRA) makes it compulsory for employers to adhere to certain ER legislative procedural frameworks that often apply at various stages of the employment lifecycle, such as: Performance Management; Disciplinary Management; Poor Health Management and Restructuring Management. These procedural compliance frameworks make it obligatory for employers to entrench fairness within pre-termination processes, depending on the context. As such, no Employer can afford to ignore the formal side to ER procedural compliance requirements. 

On a progressive level, LabourDrive is very much about innovation and exploring ways to improve ER management support structures within business. Approaching ER legal compliance processes from a systemized perspective has led to a strategic collaboration with pioneers in platform development who share a vision of streamlining ER legal compliance processes, as workplaces and businesses transform, because true progress is always a moving target.