South African Legal Aid is suspending remote work and adjusting staffing arrangements ahead of a planned strike by SALAWU, according to documents obtained by IOL. The documents indicate that Legal Aid ends remote-working arrangements and cancels planned leave in the period leading up to the industrial action. They also describe the introduction of additional attendance and monitoring measures for staff during the same lead-up period. The reports frame these steps as operational changes made before the strike date, aimed at ensuring staff presence and oversight. While the documents detail the internal measures, they do not, in the available information, include the employer’s broader rationale beyond the preparations for the strike, nor do they present new wage or bargaining demands from either side. Separate sources were not provided in the prompt, so the account is limited to the claims contained in the IOL material.