CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY – JOHANNESBURG IMPORTANT AMENDMENTS TO THE LABOUR RELATIONS ACT (LRA) AND THE BASIC CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT ACT (BCEA) These amendments will have far-reaching consequences for employer / employee [...]
New definition of “designated groups”, equal pay for workers of equal value, Compliance and Enforcement orders, scope of jurisdiction: CCMA: The EE Act came into effect on the 1st of August 2014 after [...]
President Zuma signed the bill in January 2014. The proclamation notice was published in Government Gazette 37871. The act aims to implement affirmative action measures and to eliminate unfair discrimination. The act also [...]
JOHANNESBURG – Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) Secretary General Zwelinzima Vavi has accused employer association Neasa of being greedy and declaring war against the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa [...]
Please be aware, the earnings threshold has been increased by the Minister of Labour and is effective from the 1st of July 2014! The new earnings threshold is now R205 433.33 or R17 [...]
Given the recent upsurge in strike activity (Recent Amcu / Platinum) and now the national strike by NUMSA in the Metal Engineering Industries, the question has to be asked what good industrial action [...]
In terms of the Copyright Act, the ownership of copyright in a work product which an employee created during the course and within the scope of his / her employment remains with the [...]
JOHANNESBURG – Eyewitness News has learnt that the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) is due to meet tomorrow with the African National Congress (ANC)’s intervention team. The ANC task team, established [...]
Trust Zwelinzima Vavi to tell it like it is. “A demand for a living wage is political, because it is politics that allowed such conditions 20 years into a democracy,” the Congress of [...]
JOHANNESBURG - The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) has called on the South African National Defence Union (SANDU) to come clean about its intentions after it secured a court order for the [...]
