We are Sentinel Labour Consulting
For Employees
Facing a disciplinary hearing or a CCMA dispute? We build your complete case file — documents, questions and strategy — and coach you to present your own case with confidence.
For Employers
Independent, procedurally-sound chairing for disciplinary hearings and performance reviews — protect your business from legal challenges while ensuring a fair process for everyone. Plus employment contracts, workplace policies, compliance audits and poor work performance management.
Sentinel Labour Consulting combines over a decade of hands-on labour relations experience with sharp, practical strategy. No generic advice — every case file, contract and hearing plan is built for your specific facts, your workplace and South African labour law.
What We Do
For Employees
- Disciplinary hearing preparation
- CCMA conciliation & arbitration preparation
- Quick legal opinion on your matter
For Employers
- Independent hearing chairperson
- Employment contracts & policies
- Labour compliance audit
- Poor work performance management
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Sentinel Labour Consulting and what do you do?
Sentinel Labour Consulting is a South African labour relations advisory practice. We prepare, coach, and advise both employers and employees across disciplinary hearings, incapacity inquiries, CCMA conciliation and arbitration, unfair labour practice disputes, employment contract drafting, and independent hearing chairperson services.
Who do you work with — employers, employees, or both?
Both. Sentinel operates on both sides of the employment relationship. Employer clients typically engage us for disciplinary hearing chairperson services, procedural compliance advice, contract drafting, and Poor Work Performance management. Employee clients engage us when facing disciplinary action, dismissal, or unfair labour practice disputes — including CCMA matters.
Is Sentinel based in Cape Town — can you help me if I’m elsewhere in South Africa?
Sentinel is based in Cape Town. For advisory, preparation, and coaching work — which covers the majority of what we do — we work with clients nationally via virtual consultation. Hearing documents, strategies, scripts, and CCMA preparation are all produced remotely and delivered to you before your engagement date.
Do you represent clients at hearings or the CCMA?
Sentinel’s model is preparation, advisory, and coaching — not direct representation. We prepare everything you need: your opening statement, your evidence structure, your witness questions, your cross-examination strategy, your closing argument, and your mitigation. You walk in fully equipped.
What is the difference between a labour consultant and a labour attorney?
A labour attorney is a practising advocate or attorney admitted to the roll. A labour consultant is a specialist in workplace relations and procedure who operates within the labour relations framework — disciplinary processes, CCMA rules, the LRA, BCEA, and Schedule 8 — without being an admitted legal practitioner.
Ready to Start?
Send us your matter through our secure case intake form, email info@sentinellabour.com, or WhatsApp +27 72 262 6378. We respond within one business day.
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