INTEGRATION OF OLD LABOUR LEGISLATION FINALISED THROUGH NEDLAC

3 September 1996

Nedlac has considered four outstanding pieces of old South African labour legislation and has submitted these to labour minister Tito Mboweni for repeal or amendment.

The Labour Market Chamber of Nedlac has completed its work on the issue and agreed the following:

• That the KwaNdebele Apprenticeship Act be repealed.
• That the Bophuthatswana Sebo Act be amended to remove its authority with respect to the administration of the Unemployment Insurance Fund and the Workmen's Compensation Fund.
• That the Bophuthatswana Manpower Development Act be amended in order to integrate it into the South African institutions of training and human resource development.
• That the Gazankulu Apprenticeship Act be repealed.

Nedlac Executive Director Jayendra Naidoo says The Integration of Labour Laws Act, promulgated in December 1994, followed the integration of the TBVC states and self-governing territories into South Africa and the consequent need for one labour law dispensation in the country.

The Acts which were extended as a result of this integration were the Compensation of Occupational Injuries and Diseases Act, Basic Conditions of Employment Act, Occupational Health and Safety Act, Unemployment Insurance Act, Manpower Training Act, Labour Relations Act, Agricultural Labour Relations Act and Guidance and Placement Act.

"The four pieces of legislation which have now been considered by Nedlac are the final relics of the old homelands legislation for repeal or amendment," Naidoo says.