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Reviews conflicting Labour Court and Labour Appeal Court decisions on the Labour Relations Act and Basic Conditions of Employment Act’s territorial reach. Presents a four-stage private international law method: jurisdiction, characterisation, determining the lex causae, and applying the relevant rules. 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This is a question that should be considered, as one effect of globalisation is that South African employees are increasingly working for South African employers outside of South Africa. The difficulty is that the answer to the question is to be found in the area of private international law (conflict of laws) and that very few labour disputes involving private international law have been decided by South African courts (Parry v Astral Operations Ltd 2005 26 ILJ 1479 (LC) par 30) .  \nIn 2002 in Kleynhans v Parmalat SA (Pty) Ltd (2002 9 BLLR 879 (LC)) and in 2005 in Parry v Astral Operations Ltd (supra) the Labour Court held that it did have the necessary jurisdiction to adjudicate disputes where the workplace was outside South Africa, provided that certain requirements are met. However, in Astral Operations Limited v Parry (2008 29 ILJ 2668 (LAC)) the Labour Appeal Court overturned the decision of the Labour Court. Zondo J reasoned that both the Labour Relations Act and the Basic Conditions of Employment Act do not have extra-territorial application in terms of the presumption against extra-territoriality and that, as the workplace was outside South Africa, the Labour Court, which was created by these two acts, did not have jurisdiction to adjudicate the matter.  \nIn this article I shall briefly discuss the four-stage private international law process of adjudication that should be followed in disputes where international employment contracts are involved. After that I shall discuss the judgments in Parry v Astral in the Labour Court and the decision in Astral Operations v Parry in the Labour Appeal Court as well as the effect of this decision. This will be followed by a discussion of the position regarding the jurisdiction of courts and tribunals adjudicating international employment disputes in the European Union, the United Kingdom and in Ontario, Canada. In conclusion, the judgment of the Labour Appeal Court in Astral Operations v Parry will be examined in the light of the constitutional right to fair labour practices and the necessity for employees to be protected in a globalised employment context in which multi-national enterprises operate across borders.  \n2 The four-stage-process in adjudicating private international law disputes  \nAccording to Dicey, the justification for a private international law or conflict of laws approach is the fact that “it implements the reasonable and legitimate expectations of the parties to a transaction or occurrence” (Collins “Nature and Scope of the Conflict of Laws” in Dicey, Morris and Collins (eds) The Conflict of Laws Vol 1 4ed (2006) 4-5 (par 1-005)) . Forsyth explains that cases can arise in which the application of the rules of the lex fori would be inappropriate and unjust (Forsyth Private International Law 4ed (2003) 2) .  \nEach country has its own private international law rules that will be followed in adjudicating a dispute with international (foreign) elements (Dicey“Nature and Scope of the Conflict of Laws” Dicey, Morris and Collins (eds) The Conflict of Laws Vol 1 (2006) 4 (par 1-004)) . In terms of Roman-Dutch law, which provides the basis for the South African rules of private international law (Forsyth 4), a four-stage process will be followed by courts to establish the applicable law (Calitz “Globalisation, the Development of Constitutionalism and the Individual Employee” 2007 2 PER 4/19) . The first step in adjudicating an international dispute between private parties is for the court to establish whether it has jurisdiction. In general a court could have jurisdiction if its judgment will be effective (the defendant must be domiciled o","cbCaijAEXuIcN8Wd","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaijAEXuIcN8Wd","pdf",134104,"English","# Introduction\n# The four-stage-process in adjudicating private international law disputes","[{\"question\":\"When does the Labour Court have jurisdiction over labour disputes involving work performed outside South Africa?\",\"answer\":\"The text discusses that the Labour Court held it could adjudicate when certain requirements are met, but the Labour Appeal Court later overturned that approach by emphasizing the Acts’ lack of extra-territorial application.\"},{\"question\":\"What are the four stages in adjudicating a private international law dispute?\",\"answer\":\"The stages are: (1) establish jurisdiction, including effective judgment and connecting factors; (2) characterise the dispute; (3) determine the lex causae (proper law or choice of law); and (4) apply the relevant rules to the dispute.\"},{\"question\":\"Why did the Labour Appeal Court overturn the Labour Court’s decision in the Astral operations dispute?\",\"answer\":\"Zondo J reasoned that both the Labour Relations Act and the Basic Conditions of Employment Act do not have extra-territorial application, so the Labour Court created by those statutes lacked jurisdiction when the workplace was outside South Africa.\"}]","THE JURISDICTION OF THE LABOUR COURT IN INTERNATIONAL EMPLOYMENT CONTRACTS - Note Calitz - Jurisdiction of the Labour Court | PDF",1791047613,48]