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Nigel Carman, Counsel | Pensions and Benefits

Nigel Carman

Counsel Fasken
In the practice of employment law, addressing clients’ concerns head on is the best way.
Jurisdiction South Africa, 1976
Language(s) English
Office(s) Johannesburg
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Overview

Nigel Carman is a recognized employment and pension funds lawyer in Johannesburg with many years of experience advising a broad range of employers and pension funds.

In the pension funds field, assisting clients with regulatory and surplus issues, and complaints before the Pension Funds Adjudicator, Nigel also counsels on the interpretation and application of rules and legislation as well as general restructuring issues.

Clients in the energy, financial institutions, life sciences and not-for-profit sectors, seek him out for advice on employment contracts, and personnel policies and procedures.

In addition to advising on workplace restructuring, outsourcing and re-organisation, he assists with the employment related aspects of mergers, acquisitions and tax issues, and the interpretation and application of employment statutes.

Achievements

Experience

  • Funds and individuals advised on various issues, including litigation in connection with an outsourcing project, [Case - Confidential Client], Lead attorney in advising a number of funds and individuals in connection with various issues including, amongst other things, the allocation of future surplus, fidelity insurance and trustee indemnification, reorganisation and winding-up of retirement funds, surplus apportionment issues, divorce...
  • Advising and representing a major pension fund in connection with various complaints made to the Pension Funds Adjudicator., [Case - Confidential Client], Lead attorney advising and representing a major pension fund, in connection with: various complaints made to the Pension Funds Adjudicator; the preparation and approval of the Fund’s surplus apportionment scheme; the application to the High Court to set aside the scheme; the preparation ...

Career & Education

Education

  • LLB University of Witwatersrand
  • BA University of Witwatersrand

Community involvement

  • Chair St Marys School Trust 2007 to 2019
  • Trustee Roedean School Trust 2006 to 2018
  • Trustee Anglican Education Trust
  • Trustee St Marys School Trust

Memberships & Affiliations

  • Member Legal Practice Council of South Africa

Knowledge

  • The National Minimum Wage for 2025, and Domestic Workers, 2/10/2025
  • 2024 Increase in the earnings threshold, prescribed by the basic conditions of employment act 75 of 1997, 3/8/2024
  • 2024 Increase in the Earnings Threshold, Prescribed by the Basic Conditions of Employment Act 75 of 1997, 3/7/2024
  • Wage thresholds and the national minimum wage for 2024, 2/20/2024
  • Wage thresholds and the national minimum wage for 2023, 2/22/2023
  • New BCEA Earnings Threshold, 2/17/2022
  • Part 4: Domestic Workers And The Law – The Unemployment Insurance Act, 2001, 4/8/2021
  • Part 3: Domestic Workers And The Law – The Compensation For Occupational Injuries And Diseases Act, 1993, 3/11/2021
  • Calculation of the National Minimum Wage for Domestic Workers, 2/22/2021
  • Amendment to the National Minimum Wage, 2/12/2021

News

  • Seventeen Fasken Lawyers Recognized in the 2022 Edition of Best Lawyers in South Africa, 11/11/2021
  • Fasken Martineau Recognized in the 2017 Edition of The Legal 500 Europe, Middle East and Africa, 4/28/2017
  • The Best Lawyers in South Africa 2017: 13 Fasken Martineau lawyers ranked, 11/10/2016
  • Fasken Martineau recognized in the 2016 edition of The Legal 500 Europe, Middle East and Africa, 4/21/2016
  • Fasken Martineau’s legal expertise recognized in the 2015 edition of Who’s Who Legal 100: 63 lawyers ranked, 9/2/2015
  • The Best Lawyers in South Africa 2015: 14 Fasken Martineau lawyers ranked, 10/30/2014
  • Fasken Martineau’s Johannesburg office receives top rankings in The Legal 500 EMEA 2014 edition, 5/13/2014

Publications

  • Warning to employers: Check that you have been paying contributions to your employees’ retirement funds at the correct rates and on time. The penalties for not doing this could be punitive., 3/6/2019
  • Conflicts of Interest and the Duty of Independence, 11/5/2014
  • How to calculate what you should be paying your domestic worker in South Africa, Business Tech
Article, Co-Author Warning to employers: Check that you have been paying contributions to your employees’ retirement funds at the correct rates and on time. The penalties for not doing this could be punitive. EBNet