SACTWU Memo

Item

Title

SACTWU Memo

Creator

SACTWU

Date Issued

Feb-95

Description

In July 1994 the Cabinet approved the appointment of a Ministerial Legal Task Team to overhaul the laws regulating labour relations and to prepare a negotiating document-in draft Bill form to initiate a process of public discussion and negotiation by organized labour and business and other interested parties. Its brief was to draft a Labour Relations Bill which would give effect to government policy as reflected in the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP);. give effect to public statements and decisions of the President and the Minister of Labour, which commit the government to International Labour Organisation (ILO) Conventions 87, 98 and 111, among others, and the findings of the ILO's Fact Finding and Conciliation Commission (FFCC); comply with the Constitution; be simple and, wherever possible, written in a language that the users of the legislation, namely workers and employers, could ^understand, and provide procedures that workers and employers were able to use themselves; be certain and, wherever possible, spell out the rights and obligations of workers, trade unions, employers, and employers' organizations so as to avoid a case-by-case determination of what constitutes fair labour practices; contain a recognition of fundamental organizational rights of trade unions; provide a simple procedure for the certification of trade .unions and employers' organizations and for the regulation of specific aspects of these organizations in order to ensure democratic practices and proper financial control; promote and facilitate collective bargaining in the workplace; promote and facilitate collective bargaining at industry level.

Subject

SACTWU

CheckCat

Format

pdf

Language

English

Type

text

Identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/10962/116983

Archive

Cory Library for Humanitites Research

Provenance

The item is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research, Rhodes University, on behalf of the Labour Research Service

Extent

62 pages

Rights

Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers' Union (SACTWU)

Rights Holder

Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers' Union (SACTWU)

Use/re-use

The materials are made available explicitly for research and educational purposes. Any use of these materials must be cleared with the Labour Research Service.

Publisher

Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers' Union (SACTWU)

Item sets

General Materials

Media

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