Prof Weiss will be visiting the University of Pretoria from 21 February to 2 March 2014. During his visit he will present various lectures at the Faculty of Lawy. He will also spend some time with master's degree students of the Department of Human Resource Management, who are doing research on different aspects of transnational labour relations as part of their studies.

On 27 February he will be the speaker at the Brown Bag Lunch and Research Series of the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences and on 28 February he will be the guest speaker at a seminar organised by Dr Paul Smit. The ambassadors and high commissioners of the SADC member states, as well as representatives of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration, Business Unity South Africa (Busa), Cosatu, deans from other law faculties within Gauteng and the North West, as well as academics have been invited to attend the seminar.

The title of Prof Weiss’ presentation at the seminar is ‘Towards Transnational Labour Law and Industrial Relations: The EU Experience’.