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Legislative amendments
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Draft Code of Good Practice on HIV-Aids & Employment
Sector
Skills Plan Guide (PDF)
- 17 April
Sector
Skills Plan Presentation [DOL]
Department of Labour presentation at parliamentary labour portfolio committee hearings on Employment Equity - 11 April (ppt presentation) [DOL]
Address by the Director General Of Labour, Advocate Rams Ramashia, at a conference on the Challenges of Developing Black Managers and Executives - [DOL]
180 Extension of Main Provident Fund Collective Amending Agreement to Non-Parties: Contract Cleaning Ind. (Natal): Labour Relations Act, 1995
195 Amendment of the Schedule three: Basic Conditions of Employment Act, 1997 (Act No. 75 of 1997
196 Sectoral Determination 3: Private Security Sector, South Africa: Basic Conditions of Employment Act
243 Employment Conditions Commission Investigation into the Hospitality Sector of South Africa: Basic Conditions of Employment Act (75/1997)
Regulation No. R. 245 of 2000 RULES REGULATING THE PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE FOR RESOLVING DISPUTES THROUGH CONCILIATION AND AT ARBITRATION PROCEEDINGS
Archived News Reports of Interest
Changes
raise concern over pension surpluses
Cosatu feels pension fund assets should be used for the benefit of members
only and that employers should be excluded from repatriation of surplus © Netassets
Cosatu dismayed at ruling over pregnant women
, Frank NxumaloSAA faces crushing strike over perks © Sunday Times
Labour unrest looms as unions shape up for fight - Business Times Online
More discrimination grounds included in bill Political parties, excluding the DP, support the inclusion of family responsibility and socio-economic status as prohibited grounds for discrimination NetAssets
What employers need to know about the Skills Development Levy
Labour Market Statistics now available
Deadline for the Submission of Employment Equity Plans is June 2000
Also in the news today - Employers in trouble over languages, Firms warned they must submit equity plans, SA to host two major conferences on racism (Business Day Monday Jan 10, 2000 page 3)
THE LAW THRASHES AROUND ON THE WEB
Hyperlinks are the railway tracks of cyberspace, but they are becoming embroiled in controversy - Financial Mail Interactive - 7 January 2000Employers need to review benefits
- News RoundupSchism over jobs
. Manuel's reflections are welcomed by left- and right- wing parties, but for vastly different reasons. I-Net Bridge specialist political writer Donwald Pressly reports Business DayJobs summit earns better report card Frank Nxumalo Business Report
Employers not ready for deadline
GOVERNMENT could face a "last-minute" rush
from employers who have yet to draft and implement employment equity plans by June, labour
consultants warned yesterday.Business Day
3.1m
mandays lost to strikes in '99
This is the second highest number of
mandays lost through strike action since the ANC government was installed in 1994. [Read
more at NetAssets, South Africa's premier internet daily]
Retirement fund watchdogs express their concerns Worker trustees - elected by the members to sit on the fund's management board - need to be alert to increasing attacks on fund assets by employers [Read more at NetAssests]
Procurement Bill opens can of worms Possibility of constitutional change is mooted to obligate State contracts for historically disadvantaged. Donwald Pressly reports [Read more at NetAssets, South Africa's premier internet daily]
South Africa's Liberation Anxiety After achieving the political miracle of a bloodless revolution, South Africa's lawyers race for a less sensational but equally challenging goal: transforming a criminal justice system that will defeat crime before crime defeats democracy. A report from the front. (The American Lawyer -- Read the story at Law News Network's LEGAL NEWSWIRE.)
Govt looks at lower youth wage rate GOVERNMENT is considering introducing a lower wage rate for young workers in a bid to boost employment.[Read more at Business Day]
SADC
health ministers to hold Aids talks
Health ministers from the 14-nation Southern African Development Community will meet to
discuss the region's Aids crisis [Read
more at NetAssets]
Aids
hopes rest on new minister
Aids campaigners eye Health Minister Manto Tshabalala- Msimang with hope, after battling
with her predecessor. Sue Thomas reports [Read
more at NetAssets]
Law
changes a boost for small business
Small businesses get a major boost with the labour minister's decision to vary some of the
provisions of the Basic Conditions of Employment Act [Read
more at NetAssets]
Manuel
to call on think-tanks over jobs
Finance Minister says the economy needs to be on a higher growth path, and that he will
consult think-tanks on ways to improve current growth rates [Read
more at NetAssets]
SMME
labour ruling imminent
The Labour Department is set to make an announcement shortly on the extent of small
business exclusion from provisions of South Africa's labour legislation. This
emerged in a letter written to Parliament's chairperson of the standing committee on
private members legislation, proposals and special petitions, Peter
Hendrikse, from the
director-general of labour, Sipho Pityana. [Read
more at NetAssests]
Medical aid discrimination gets the boot [NetAssets]
Few blacks making it into the boardroom [Business Times Online]
Equality Bill a grave threat to personal liberty in SA [Business Times Online]
Minimum wage for farm workers by June. Many employers are opposed to minimum wages, saying that these will lead to job losses. [Read More NetAssets]
07:29 PM ET 10/07/99U.N. Adopts Sex Bias Protocol U.N. Adopts Sex Bias Protocol UNITED NATIONS (AP) _ The U.N. General Assembly has adopted a legal protocol that will enable women for the first time to submit sex discrimination complaints directly to the United Nations if they don't get heard in their home country. The protocol does not require, however, that countries hand over information about individual cases. Acting without a vote, the assembly adopted the 21-article optional protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women. The assembly also urged all parties to the treaty to ratify it as soon as possible. The optional protocol to the convention was opened for signatures after it was approved Wednesday. It will enter into force as soon as 10 countries have ratified it. The convention, adopted by the General Assembly in December 1979 and ratified by 163 countries, bars abuses against women. Among other things, the treaty requires that women have equal rights to work, pay, benefits and safe working conditions. It also prohibits discrimination against women in political activities and requires a minimum age for marriage. But the treaty did not include complaint procedures so women could bring their grievances before the United Nations if they weren't addressed by their own countries. Twenty years later, women are likely to get that right. After four years of negotiations, the Commission on the Status of Women approved the optional protocol in March and sent it to the General Assembly for final approval.
2,5m
man-days lost to strikes so far this year Frank Nxumalo
30 September 1999
Johannesburg - Strikes surged in the third quarter of this year, pushing the estimated
number of man-days lost from 410 000 at the end of June to 2,5 million at the end of
September, overtaking the figure of 2,3 million days lost during the same period in 1998,
Andrew Levy & Associates, the labour consultancy, said yesterday. [Read more at
Business
Report]
Report shows strikes are at highest level in five years [read more at Business Day]
Bill
proposes service for law graduates. The Department of Justice
has released a discussion document proposing compulsory community service for law
graduates and practising lawyers, as well as the scrapping of set fees for legal services.
Controversial equality bill adopted [Read more at Independant Online News (Star Newspaper)
'The time for delivery has arrived' Labour Minister MEMBATHISI MDLADLANA outlines the strategy being used to implement the Skills Development Act [read further @ Business Times]
Employers, trade unions rapped over the knuckles Analysts say parties are too quick to haul each other before the CCMA, writes S'THEMBISO MSOMI