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

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Collective Bargaining, Industrial Action and Picketing

Part A : Introduction

2. Context

 

(1) Violence during strikes and lockouts requires serious measures to prevent violence and to induce a behaviour change in the way employees, employers and the  police and private  security, engage with each other  during a strike or a lockout.

 

(2) The role and conduct of the South African Police Services and the private security services in strikes and lockouts needs to be addressed and clarified and brought to the attention of all role players.

 

(3) Prolonged and violent strikes have a serious detrimental effect on the strikers, the families of the strikers, the small businesses that provide services in  the community to those strikers, the employer, the economy and community. Serious measures are needed to induce a behaviour change in the way that trade unions and employers and employers' organisations engage with each other in the pre-negotiation,negotiation and industrial action phases of collective bargaining.

 

(4) The measures must promote orderly and effective  collective  bargaining  and include measures to proactively and constructively resolve disputes prior to industrial action and to explore all genuine options to resolve a dispute as speedily  as possible.