LABOUR LAW AMENDMENT NEGOTIATIONS

1 June 2001

Representatives of government, business and labour met at nedlac today to continue the processes of negotiating on the proposed amendments to the Labour Relations Act, Basic Conditions of Employment Act and the Insolvency Act. These negotiations reconvened after a series of bilateral meetings following the meeting of the parties in December of last year.

The parties agreed on the time frames for the process of negotiations and a series of meeting s will take place over the next six weeks for the parties to reach finality on the proposed amendments.

Sactwu Section 77 notice of intended protest action.

Sactwu served a notice in terms of Section 77 of the LRA last week. The union intends initiating protest action against the clothing retail sector for the continuing job losses in the sector which it believes are the result of exploitative practices, sourcing and pricing policies of the retailers and high levels of imports of goods in the sector.

The Section 77 Committee met to consider the application and the response of the retailers that attended.

The parties agreed to meet in a fortnights time to allow the retailers to consider the issues raised by the union and to formulate responses to these. Nedlac will facilitate this meeting.

Jennifer Wilson
Communications Coordinator
Nedlac
(011) 482-2511
fax: 482 4650
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