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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

4. Dispute Resolution Levy

 

4.1 Dispute Resolution levies shall be payable to the Council at the prescribed rates by the employer and employee when 1 hour or more 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:
4.1.1 paid public holidays;
4.1.2 trade union representative leave days;
4.1.3 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
4.1.4 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.

 

4.2 The Dispute Resolution levies payable to the Council shall amount to R2-00 per employee per week payable by the employer and R2-00 per week payable by the employee.

 

[Addendum 1(4) substituted by section 6 of Notice No. 233, GG44505, dated 30 April 2021]