Legal Matters: Unpacking Mutual Separation Agreement (MSA)
The Aubrey Masango Show · 2 June 2026 · 38m
Speaker 1: Legal Matters thirty two minutes after eight o'clock and welcome to the first hour of Speaker 1: the show. We are talking about the mutual separation agreement with Ganana or Christopher Marshubia Speaker 1: as I said, he's a human resources practitioner and director at Mashupier HR Consulting Services. Speaker 1: Chris Ganana, thank you so much for joining me. I love your name, Ganana. What Speaker 1: does it mean? God is with me? Ganadin? Tell me what the is? A agreement? Speaker 1: Is the mutual separation agreement? What is that and why is it that we must Speaker 1: be careful? Speaker 2: It a mutual separation agreement. Speaker 3: It's one of those mechanisms which are available when you are separating from your employer Speaker 3: because the employer has one of the mechanisms that they have is to dismiss you Speaker 3: and timinate your contract, and you, as an employee, the mechanisms that you have is Speaker 3: to resign from your employment. Then emmutual separation is wherever you and your employer you Speaker 3: agree we are not taking each other fairther, we are not taking each other to Speaker 3: court. I am leaving and this is the agreement that you and I are going Speaker 3: to sign. And with the mutual separation agreement, you lose certain benefits, like your. Speaker 2: Like your UIF. Speaker 3: Then you lose your UIF and you lose your right to say, actually, the employer Speaker 3: did not treat me well, hence I took this. Once you have signed that, it Speaker 3: then says any future potential litigation that you can have against the employer becomes mute. Speaker 3: So now you can take your employer to court for wrongful…
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