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Die IAO se Termination of Employment Digest verduidelik dat ʼn <strong>die</strong>nskontrak <strong>van</strong>uit ʼn<br />

regsperspektief as ʼn bilateral regstransaksie beskou word. Om aan <strong>die</strong> bepalings <strong>van</strong><br />

<strong>die</strong> kontrak te voldoen en dit uit te voer, kan nie aan eensydige verklarings en <strong>die</strong><br />

uitdrukking <strong>van</strong> <strong>die</strong> eie wil by enige <strong>van</strong> <strong>die</strong> kontrakterende partye oorgelaat word nie en<br />

is onderhewig aan <strong>die</strong> bepalings <strong>van</strong> <strong>die</strong> kontraktereg. Aangesien dit presies is wat<br />

gebeur met <strong>die</strong> beëindiging <strong>van</strong> ʼn <strong>die</strong>nskontrak moet dit geregverdig kan word. Met<br />

ander woorde, daar moet ʼn rede wees wat verhoed dat <strong>die</strong> kontrak voortgaan en wat<br />

regsgronde vorm vir <strong>die</strong> werkgewer se eensydige wens of handeling om <strong>die</strong><br />

<strong>die</strong>nskontrak te beëindig. 105<br />

2.2.2 Die gemenereg en wetgewing<br />

Gedurende <strong>die</strong> negentiende eeu, onder Engelse meester- en knegskappe, 106 is enige<br />

vorm <strong>van</strong> kontrakbreuk as ʼn kriminele oortreding hanteer en <strong>die</strong> howe het dit teen<br />

hier<strong>die</strong> agtergrond toegepas. 107 Dieselfde beginsel het onder <strong>die</strong> Romeins-Hollandse<br />

reg gegeld vir <strong>die</strong> Heer- en <strong>die</strong>nsbode verhouding. 108<br />

Hepple waarsku egter dat ouer bronne oor ontslag versigtig hanteer moet word, omdat<br />

dit weinig antwoorde vir <strong>die</strong> moderne arbeidsreg bied. 109 Hy verwys spesifiek na <strong>die</strong><br />

Engelse Conspiracy and Protection of Property Act <strong>van</strong> 1875 wat alle kriminele<br />

105<br />

Belle 2000:14-15. Sien ook Freeland 2007:138: “This becomes apparent when we appreciate the<br />

extend to which, in the sphere of employment or personal word relations, the classifying or characterising<br />

of contracts and relationships itself has become a central part of regulatory activity directed towards the<br />

general goal of fairness. We find this, of course, in the fundamental tenet of labour law in the twentieth<br />

century, namely that the classification or characterisation of the dependent employment relationship in<br />

terms of the contractual subordination of the worker to the employing enterprise provided the basic<br />

normative justification for regulation designed to redress that subordination and rebalance the contract or<br />

relationship in the interest of fair treatment of the worker ... We have there the core of an idea of<br />

regulatory classification for fairness, both historically and currently, as being complex and multi-faceted<br />

with ramifications within and beyond the binary divide between employees and the self employed.”<br />

106<br />

Deakin 2007:74. Byvoorbeeld <strong>die</strong> Engelse Master and Ser<strong>van</strong>t Act 1867.<br />

107<br />

Grogan 2010:130.<br />

108<br />

Wiehahn 1982:xv-xvii. Die Heer- en <strong>die</strong>nsbode wetgewing het tot en met 1976 in Suid-Afrika gegeld.<br />

Die wet is ingevolge artikel 51 <strong>van</strong> Wet 94 <strong>van</strong> 1974 afgeskaf.<br />

109<br />

Hepple 1979:45. Hier<strong>die</strong> waarskuwing is in Suid-Afrika <strong>van</strong> besondere belang, omdat Sir Bob Hepple<br />

een <strong>van</strong> <strong>die</strong> internasionale kundiges was wat deur <strong>die</strong> IAO betrek is met <strong>die</strong> opstel <strong>van</strong> <strong>die</strong> huidige Wet op<br />

Arbeidsverhoudinge en ook omdat Hepple sy regsopleiding in Suid-Afrika ont<strong>van</strong>g het. Sien Brassey<br />

1987b:70-71.<br />

semper et unicus optimus<br />

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