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Professor Paul Benjamin has been at the cutting edge of labour law practice and policy for over three decades. He has worked at the Legal Resources Centre and the Centre for Applied Legal Studies and has been a director of Cheadle Thompson & Haysom Inc. Attorneys since 1986.

Benjamin's work combines practice with academia and he has been a professor at both UCT and Wits. He has written and researched extensively on labour law and is ranked by the National Research Foundation as an 'internationally acclaimed researcher'.

Benjamin represented COSATU during the drafting of the Labour Relations Act 66 of 1995 and was subsequently the principal drafter of the Basic Conditions of Employment Act, 75 of 1997. He continues to work closely with the Department of Labour.

He has drafted laws on a range of issues including occupational health and safety, skills development, environmental regulation, special economic zones and black economic empowerment.

He works closely with the CCMA and has assisted it in developing rules, guidelines and policies. He has a BA LLB from UCT and an LLM from Warwick University in the UK and has been an acting Judge of the Labour Court.