Episode 9 - In conversation with Fiona Leppan from Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr

Episode 9 - In conversation with Fiona Leppan from Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr

Fiona Leppan is a Director in the Employment Law practice at Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr. She has extensive experience in the field of employee relations both from a litigation perspective and in terms of strategic planning. Training and development in this field has been a focal point. Fiona has actively trained clients on how to deal with internal disputes and to conduct enquiries and arbitrations. She has also established entire dispute resolution processes for a number of mining houses where disputes were dealt with by way of private conciliation and arbitration. Fiona works in various industries including mining, metals, engineering, retail, broadcasting, financial services and the commercial distributive trade. She has also been involved in occupational health and safety work.Fiona’s sector specialities include Employment litigation, individual labour law, collective bargaining law and strategic planning and Occupational Health & Safety in Mining & Minerals.

Fiona began her career as registrar to Mr Justice Margo in the then Supreme Court. In 1983 Fiona joined Webber Wentzel Bowens as a Candidate Attorney where she was later promoted to Partner. She subsequently joined Deneys Reitz as a Partner. In 1998, she left Deneys Reitz to establish the law firm Leppan Beech. In 2007 Fiona joined Cliffe Dekker (now Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr) as a Director.

In this episode of Business Talk, Leppan talks through workplace policies, specifically pertaining to cultural/political and religious clothing, as South Africans return to the office following a tumultuous 18 month period.