Barney Jordaan holds a BA LLB (cum laude) and LLD from Stellenbosch University and was admitted as an attorney of the Supreme Court of South Africa in 1982. He was professor of law at Stellenbosch University until 1997, when he left the university to practice full-time as a labour law and industrial relations specialist. He is currently extraordinary professor at the Graduate School of Business of Stellenbosch University and visiting professor at the Graduate School of Business of UCT, where he teaches on the MBA, management development and industrial relations programmes.
Barney is a senior arbitrator and mediator, having been involved in labour dispute resolution since 1987. He was part of a panel of trainers that trained the first commissioners of the primary statutory dispute resolution agency for labour disputes, the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) and he served as part-time senior commissioner with that body for the first three years after its establishment. He has also undertaken work for the International Labour Organisation, among others, acting as the representative of the Director General of the ILO in its mission to Swaziland in 1996.
He has written extensively in the areas of labour law, labour relations and dispute resolution and is responsible for organizing and participating in a prestigious annual labour law seminar with other professionals in the field. He is a founder director of Jordaan Stander (Pty) Ltd, a leading firm of labour law and labour relations practitioners in South Africa. The name of that firm was changed in April 2006 to Maserumule Employment Consultancy following a 35% BEE share purchase by Maserumule Inc Attorneys of Johannesburg
Barney is founder trustee of the Centre for Rural Legal Studies. He is a past chairman of the Stellenbosch Advice Office Trust and currently still chairs the board of trustees of Bell House, Stellenbosch, an NGO whose aim it is to assist community-based organisations in the Stellenbosch area. He also does pro bono work for the Men on the Side of the Road Project.
