Potential Changes to Employment Legislation

Potential Changes to Employment Legislation

Legislation

In November 2017, the Department of Labour released three amendment bills for comment. Should they be implemented they would have an impact on employment relationships. This article serves to act as pre-warning to watch this space over the coming months.

  1. Basic Conditions of Employment – proposed changes include:
    1. Provide for daily wage payments for certain employees
    2. Repeal the provisions dealing with sectoral determinations and create transitional arrangements for sectoral determinations
    3. Extend the jurisdiction of the CCMA
    4. Extend labour inspector powers to Unemployment Insurance and National Minimum Wage enforcement
  2. Labour Relations – proposed changes include:
    1. Provide for the extension of funding agreements
    2. Provide for picketing arrangements
    3. Provide for a ratified minimum service
    4. Extend the meaning of “ballot”
  3. National Wage Amendment Bill (discussed in detail in the first article of this newsletter)
    1. Provide for a National Minimum Wage
    2. Establish a National Minimum Wage commission
    3. Provide for a review and annual adjustment of the National Minimum Wage
    4. Provide for exemption from paying the National Minimum Wage
    5. Provide for transitional arrangements for farm and domestic workers