Craig Bosch
Formerly a senior lecturer in labour law, University of the Western Cape (LLM and LLB courses), Craig is a part-time senior commissioner at the CCMA, and panellist the Clothing, the Education, the Metal and Engineering Industries and South African Local Government Bargaining Councils. He is also a panellist (arbitrator and mediator) for Tokiso and IR Change.
Craig has presented papers at various local and international conferences and has published numerous journal articles. He is the co-author of Employment Rights and Business Transfers in South Africa and Labour Relations Law. His main areas of research interest are the law relating to the employment consequences of business transfers, the contract of employment, age discrimination and unfair dismissal.
Having studied in Stellenbosch, Craig is a wine enthusiast and is often found amongst the vineyards on free weekends.
Barney Jordaan
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.
