Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Examples of these benefits include: housing (employer-provided or employer-paid) furnished or not, with or without free utilities; group insurance (health, dental, life, etc.); disability income protection; retirement benefits; daycare; tuition reimbursement; sick leave; vacation (paid and unpaid); social security; profit sharing; employer ...
Established in 1990, the Ministry of Justice of Namibia provides court representation to ministries, offices, agencies, the master of the High Court, the speaker of the National Assembly, the prosecutor-general, magistrates, the Motor Vehicle Accident Fund, regional councils, recognized traditional authorities, and entities associated with the government administration. [1]
Dave Smuts (David Smuts) is as of 2023 one of the four judges on the Supreme Court of Namibia [1] and the founder of the Legal Assistance Centre. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School. [2] Smuts began practising law in 1980. [2] He assisted in founding Namibia's largest newspaper The Namibian in 1985. [3]
This Namibia -related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
The Supreme Court is the highest national forum of appeal. It has inherent jurisdiction over all legal matters in Namibia. It adjudicates, according to art 79 of the Constitution, appeals emanating from the High Court, including appeals which involve the interpretation, implementation and upholding of the Constitution and the fundamental rights and freedoms guaranteed therein.
Unfair dismissal in Namibia is defined by the Namibian Labour Act of 2007.The burden of the proof that a dismissal was fair lies with the employer. [1]A termination of employment is regarded an unfair dismissal when the employer dismisses the employee for the following reasons as set out in the Labour Act of 2007: [2]
The Namibian Ministry of Health and Social Services was established at Namibian independence in 1990. The first Namibian health and social services minister was Nickey Iyambo.
Namibia has a 'hybrid' or 'mixed' legal system, [1] formed by the interweaving of a number of distinct legal traditions: a civil law system inherited from the Dutch, a common law system inherited from the British, and a customary law system inherited from indigenous Africans (often termed African Customary Law, of which there are many variations depending on the tribal origin).