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Can I get fired if I have not received 3 written warnings?
No supplied source creates a general rule that an employee may be fired only after three written warnings. The sources instead concern particular public-service or statutory settings: adverse remarks must generally be disclosed in writing under the Public Service regulations; intelligence and correctional-service misconduct procedures require written charges/notice; and the Cultural Institutions regulations permit termination on at least three months’ written notice, with an appeal option. None requires three written warnings before dismissal. 1234
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Public Service Act 13 of 1995-Regulations 1981-0028
2 Subject to the provisions of subregulation 3, an officer or employee in respect of whom a report has been completed in terms of subregulation 1, shall not have the righ t of access thereto. A17. 3 Any adverse remark contained in a report in respect of an officer or employee shall, by the reporting officer be brought to the notice of the officer or employee reported upon in writing and in its full context who must sign the written communication and return it, together with any representations, in writing, which he desires to submit, to the reporting officer: Provided that the foregoing provisions also apply to adverse remarks made in respect of an officer or employee in a written communicat...
Cultural Institutions Act 29 of 1969-Regulations 1969-1168
The last use of the word “absence” in this subregul ation should be “absent” (“…absent on vacation…”) .] (3) Notwithstanding the absence of any cause for retirement or discharge set out in these regulations, a council may terminate the employment of an officer (other than an officer on contract) on at least three months’ notice in writing of the termination of his services: Provided that such officer may within 14 days after receipt of the notice mentioned, or within such further period as the Minister may allow, lodge a written appeal against the termination of his services with the Minister: Provided. further. that the Minister may order that such appellant be reinstated in his former post...
Namibia Central Intelligence Service Act 10 of 1997-Regulations 1998-118
with misconduct, if he or she is of the opinion that sufficient grounds for a charge of misconduct against the staff member have been found during an investigation carried out in terms of regulation 10. (2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subregulation (1) and notwithstanding the fact that an investigation was not carried out in terms of regulation 10, the Director may in writing under his or her hand charge a staff member with misconduct, if the Director has reason to believe that the staff member is guilty of misconduct. (3) A charge contemplated in subregulation (1) or (2) - (a) shall be served on the staff member charged; (b) shall contain or shall be accompanied by - (i) a statement o...
Correctional Service Act 9 of 2012-Regulations 2013-331
under the signature of the initiator in duplicate and in the prescribed form. (2) The initiator must give the notice referred to in subreguation (1), together with the copy of the charge sheet to the officer in charge, or head of office or workplace. [The word “subregulation” is misspelt in the Government Gazette, as reproduced above.] (3) The officer in charge, or head of office or workplace must serve the notice and copy of charge sheet or cause them to be served to the charged officer, 14 days before the date fixed for the inquiry. (4) The notice and the copy of the charge sheet referred to in subregulation (3) must be given to the charged officer in person and if he or she cannot be foun...
Labour Act 11 of 2007-Regulations 2025-308
9.1 Notice periods The length of written notice that any party to this contract of employment shall give to terminate such contract is:
Communications Act 8 of 2009-Regulations 2020-159
impose a monetary penalty under these Regulations, the Authority may at any time issue a warning notice to a person if the Authority has reasonable grounds to suspect that such person’s conduct may constitute a contravention or failure or, based on the perceived conduct of such person, such conduct would likely, or has the potential to, result in a contravention or failure. (2) A warning notice must be in writing and regulation 6(3)(a) to (f) and (h) apply with the necessary changes to a warning notice. (3) Regulation 3(1)(b) does not apply to warning notices. Punitive notices