Itayi Gwaunza

Itayi Gwaunza is an Executive at ENS in the Employment practice. His practice focuses on Employment Law, specialising in all employment law matters.

His litigation experience includes appearances for trials, applications and arbitrations at the Labour Court, Labour Appeal Court, CCMA and Bargaining Councils, dealing with unfair dismissal disputes, unfair labour practice disputes, unfair discrimination disputes, restraint of trade disputes, collective bargaining and organizational rights disputes, strike interdicts, protected disclosure and whistle-blower disputes, and section 197 disputes.

His non-litigation experience includes employment-related opinions, drafting employment contracts, independent contractor agreements, consultancy agreements, section 197 agreements, restraint of trade agreements, recognition agreements, policies and procedures, due diligences, compliance checks and audits, and occupational health and safety. He also advises on employment aspects arising from corporate transactions, such as sales of businesses, mergers and acquisitions and share-sale transactions.

Itayi has additional expertise in administrative law, employee benefits, compensation and remuneration and sports law. He also advises boards of directors, board committees, executive committees and management committees on all employment law matters, and has presided over and prosecuted internal enquiries at several clients. He has been an acting judge in the Labour Court, during which period he wrote several judgments.

He has advised clients on employment matters in several countries on the African continent, written several articles on employment matters, and facilitated workshops and seminars on a number of employment-related topics. He holds a BA and an LLB from the University of Cape Town and is admitted as an attorney of the High Court of South Africa. He is recognised by Best Lawyers for Labour and Employment Law in South Africa.