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Labour Relations Act, 1995 (Act No. 66 of 1995)

Notices

Bargaining Council for the Furniture Manufacturing Industry

Extension to Non-Parties of the Main Collective Agreement

Addendum 1 : Fees, Levies and Contributions payable to the Council

2. Holiday Bonus Fund Contributions

 

2.1 Holiday Bonus Fund contributions shall only be payable by the employer to the Council and are calculated at the prescribed rates when more than 20 hours' wages per week are payable to an employee. To determine the number of hours worked by the employee, the calculation must include the ordinary hours worked by the employee as well as the hours which would ordinarily have been worked by the employee on:
2.1.1 paid public holidays;
2.1.2 trade union representative leave days;
2.1.3 the first 3 days per annum of paid sick leave days on condition that an acceptable medical certificate is presented by the employee to his employer and that such sick leave days do not fall on a Monday or a Friday or on the day before or after a public holiday; and
2.1.4 family responsibility leave days for the first 2 days only which are related to the death of an employee's spouse, life partner, employee's parent, adoptive parent, grandparent, child, adopted child, grandchild or sibling and upon submission of the relevant death certificate by the employee to his employer.

 

2.2 The Holiday Bonus Fund contributions payable to the Council shall be determined as follows:
2.2.1 8.75% of the employee's ordinary weekly wages, if the employee has lost 20 minutes or less of the full possible number of ordinary hours that the employee is entitled to be paid for in any specific pay week.
2.2.2 5% of the employee's ordinary weekly wages, if the employee has lost between 21 minutes and 60 minutes of the full possible number of ordinary hours that the employee is entitled to be paid for in any specific pay week.
2.2.3 0% of the employee's ordinary weekly wages, if the employee has lost more than 60 minutes of the full possible number of ordinary hours that the employee is entitled to be paid for in any specific pay week.
2.2.4 8.75% of a foreman's weekly rate of pay for working employers.
2.2.5 No Holiday Bonus Fund contributions are payable on wages which are payable for overtime wages, hours worked on a Sunday, allowances and on wages which are payable for study leave days.
2.2.6 An employee shah be entitled to Holiday Bonus Fund contributions at the prescribed rate for a full day if he has reported to his place of work when required to be present by the employer, on any day when that establishment is working short time.