Legal Requirements for Bookshops

Legal Requirements for Bookshops

After successful completion the student will receive a SABA completion Certificate.

This course is aimed at giving you a basic understanding of what a business is required to do to ensure that it performs within the context of the law of the country.

This course is by no means fully comprehensive and is to give you a STARTING point in your understanding of the laws applicable to the business. It is strongly advised that you, at all times, refer to a legal professional to assist in all matters pertaining to law.

In this course participants will learn to:

1. Fully understand the laws applicable to the business
2. How the law impacts the business
3. The relevant acts applicable to the business

Course Content

1. The Law and How it Impacts the Business
2. Acts Relating Directly to the Business
3. The Acts Relating Directly to Finance
4. Acts Applicable to Employees of a Business
5. Acts Relating to the Customer
6. Final Assignment

Your Lecturer for this online course: Legal Requirements for Bookshops

Jen Cook

Jen started as a casual bookseller working evenings and weekends at the Exclusive books in Sandton when it was still called The Bookworm whilst studying towards her BSc in Botany. After graduating she completed 3 years of Architecture but soon realized that her heart was in the bookshop. Jen worked at the Sandton branch first as a full time bookseller, then as the Children's bookseller and finally as the Deputy Store Manager, she then left Exclusive Books to work as a sales rep for Random House and soon after became the Product Manager for Random House. She has also worked for a training company where her love of teaching was ignited and has thus returned to Exclusive Books combining her love of bookselling and teaching by taking up the position of Training Co-coordinator for Exclusive Books.