About Us

Who we are

Sentinel Labour Consulting is a South African labour relations consultancy serving employers and employees in every province. We prepare, coach and advise clients through disciplinary hearings, incapacity inquiries, CCMA conciliation and arbitration, unfair labour practice disputes and employment contract drafting, and we chair disciplinary and work performance hearings independently for employers.

We work virtually, which is why a client in Polokwane gets the same case file and the same handover session as one in Cape Town. Documents and coaching reach you before your hearing or CCMA date, not on the morning of it.

What we believe

South Africa’s labour law framework exists because our history demanded it. The Labour Relations Act and the Basic Conditions of Employment Act give a worker a route to challenge a dismissal, and give an employer a standard to meet. We believe every employee deserves a fair process, and every employer deserves a defensible one. Our work exists to make both real.

If your case is weak, we will tell you honestly and early. We do not take mandates we cannot add value to. Where a matter belongs with an admitted attorney, at the Labour Court for example, we say so and refund you in full.

Why we act for both sides

We act for employers and employees, though never in the same matter, and always with full commitment to the side we serve. We have built employer cases, chaired contested hearings, and prepared employees facing dismissal. That means we know how the other side thinks, what it will lead first, and where it usually gets sloppy. Every file we build is sharper for it.

What we do not do

We do not represent you. Not at a disciplinary hearing, not at an appeal, not at CCMA conciliation or arbitration. Sentinel is a labour consultancy, not a law firm.

What we do instead is prepare you so thoroughly that you do not need anyone in the room with you. Your opening statement, your evidence, your questions for each of their witnesses, your closing and your mitigation, all written the way you will actually say them. At CCMA conciliation, parties engage personally in any event.