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Johan Olivier

Consultant · Webber Wentzel

South AfricaEmployment, Employee Benefits

About

Consultant in Webber Wentzel's Employment, Health & Safety Practice in South Africa, specialising in employment and employee benefits law and health and safety. He has extensive experience in corporate restructuring, collective bargaining, strikes and lock-outs, discrimination, disciplinary and litigation proceedings, M&A-related employment issues, workforce reduction programmes, transfers of undertakings, harmonisation of employee benefits, retirement funds and medical aid schemes, and advising financial service providers on FAIS debarment procedures.

Practice areas

EmploymentEmployee BenefitsHealth & SafetyLabour RelationsCorporate / M&AFinancial Services

Office

Expertise

Corporate restructuringCollective bargaining, strikes and lock-outsDiscrimination lawDisciplinary and employment litigationMergers & acquisitions-related employment issuesWorkforce reduction programmesTransfers of undertakings and going-concern transactionsHarmonisation of employee benefitsCross-border employment arrangementsRetirement funds and medical aid schemesAdvising financial service providers on FAIS debarment procedures

Education

  • Higher Diploma in Arbitration, Association of Arbitrators, 1998
  • LLM (cum laude), Rand Afrikaans University, 1992
  • LLB, Stellenbosch University, 1986
  • BA, Stellenbosch University, 1984

Admissions

  • Admitted attorney of the High Court of South Africa