Alex Ferreira

Alex Ferreira is an Executive at ENS in the Employment practice. His practice focuses on Employment Law, specialising in all types of labour matters.

His practice has a particular focus on advisory work and employment litigation, including experience in Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA), bargaining council, Labour Court, Labour Appeal Court, High Court and Supreme Court of Appeal cases.

Alex's practice is primarily aimed at servicing corporate clients, and a significant portion of his client base consists of US, European and Japanese multinationals requiring advice and assistance for their business interests in Southern Africa. He also advises on employment law in a variety of African jurisdictions, in particular Mozambique.

His experience includes advising on collective labour law issues, as well as labour disputes, dismissals for misconduct, poor performance and retrenchments, business restructuring, global mobility, transfers of employment, skills development legislation and strategic advice in relation to trade unions. He is also experienced in obtaining strike interdicts, enforcing and opposing restraint of trade agreements, reviewing CCMA decisions, drafting and reviewing employment contracts, brokering severance and settlement agreements, formulating and reviewing employment policies and procedures, and assisting clients with disciplinary enquiries and in-house investigations where employee misconduct or sexual harassment is suspected.

He has presented at seminars and training workshops on a variety of employment law issues, and is the author of articles and updates for Labour Law for Managers: A Practical Handbook. He has also presided over various matters as an acting judge of the Labour Court of South Africa, and since 2022 has served on the Legal Practice Council's Investigating, Disciplinary and Mediation Committee.

He holds a BA, an LLB and an LLM in Employment Law and Advanced Company Law from the University of the Witwatersrand, and completed Computer Science for Lawyers at Harvard Law School (Executive Education). He is admitted as an attorney of the High Court of South Africa, and is recognised by Thomson Reuters as a Stand-out Lawyer 2026 and by Best Lawyers for Labour and Employment Law and Employee Benefits Law in South Africa.