Get to know your Codes of Good Practice

by Marianne Gradwell Our labour laws are not always very descriptive when it comes to practical workplace implementation.  For this reason, the Minister of Labour, after consulting with the National Economic Development and Labour Council (NEDLAC), may issue Codes of...

Strike violence: A solution

  Since the travesty that befell the country in 2012 with the Marikana incident, South Africa has been described as an extremely strike-prone country with many attendant losses. For example, insurer Sasria recorded claims of nearly R900 million most of which were...

National Minimum Wage: Updates

We reported in February that Deputy President, Cyril Ramaphosa, had announced a National Minimum Wage for South Africa. This would take effect on 1 May 2018. The NMW would work out to be R20 per hour for a 40-hour week. These are still valid. However, there have been...

NEDLAC Update

The final negotiation for the year took place on the 13th of December. There are enormous time pressures to finalise the changes and this is not assisted by the fact that the process is becoming strained and adversarial. There has been slow progress on 4 of the 6...