Naa'ilah Abader

Naa'ilah Abader is an Executive at ENS in the Employment practice. Her practice focuses on Employment Law.

Naa'ilah has extensive experience and a keen interest in employment law in several African jurisdictions. She has advised public and private clients in South Africa and in a number of jurisdictions including Angola, Botswana, Djibouti, DRC, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

She has experience in and has advised a number of clients in relation to the gig economy, global mobility and remote working arrangements, and has conducted workshops and training in relation to this topic.

Naa'ilah has advised clients in a variety of industries, including finance, farming, manufacturing, aviation, telecommunications, media, software, security, retail, technology and pharmaceutical, as well as the Independent Regulatory Board for Auditors and the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants.

Her experience includes advising clients on employment law matters, such as incompatibility and incapacity issues, disciplinary proceedings, as well as labour litigation matters at the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration, bargaining councils and the Labour Court, including arbitrations, reviews and trials. She also has significant experience in conducting due diligence exercises, advising clients on transfers of business as a going concern, as well as restraint of trade litigation matters. Naa'ilah regularly advises clients on small and large-scale retrenchments.

She has also assisted clients with conducting internal investigations and has conducted training for a number of clients on a wide range of employment law topics including employment equity, internal hearings, harassment and POPI. She has been extensively involved in a number of prosecutions for the Independent Regulatory Board for Auditors and the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants in relation to professional misconduct cases, and has advised regulatory bodies on aspects relating to administrative law.

She holds an LLB (Cum Laude) from the University of the Witwatersrand and is admitted as an attorney of the High Court of South Africa.