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

Notices

Bargaining Council for the Furniture Manufacturing Industry

South Western Districts

Main Collective Agreement

Part l

C. Contributions and Deductions

48. Medical Assistance Scheme

Purchase

(1)	An amount of Seven Rand Fifty Cents (R7.50) per week is payable by the Employer, only for employees who are members of the trade union, party to the Council, ill health benefit fund, being the National Union of Furniture and Allied Workers of South Africa.

(2)	The amount payable by the employer must be paid to the Council along with all other contributions by the 15th day of the month following that in which it became due.

(3)	The Council must collect the medical ill health benefit contributions and pay it over to the Trade Union on a monthly basis into an account administered by the respective Trade Union.

(4)

The National Union of Furniture and Allied Workers of South Africa is to make available to the Garden Route Manufacturers Association the quarterly management accounts other National Union of Furniture and Allied Workers of South Africa Medical Ill Health Benefit Fund and shall invite a representative of the Garden Route Manufacturer Association to attend such quarterly meetings of their Medical Ill Health Benefit Fund.

(5)

An Employer who is in arrears with payments in terms of sub-clause (1) and who fails after having been warned in writing by the Council, to forward the outstanding amount within seven days of such warning, shall upon being notified by the Council in writing to do so, submit the amounts in terms of this clause week by week so as to reach the Secretary not later than the Friday following the pay-day of the week in respect of which the amounts are due. An Employer to whom the provisions of this paragraph have been applied may, only upon being notified by the Council in writing, revert to the payment of amounts payable in terms of this clause on the monthly basis provided for in terms of sub-clause (1).

(6)

Should any amount due in terms of this clause not be received by the Council by the 15th day of the month following the month in respect of which it is payable, the Employer shall forthwith be liable for and be required to pay interest on such amount or on such lesser amount as remains unpaid at the rate prescribed by the Prescribed Rate of Interest Act No. 55 of 1975, as amended, calculated from such 15th day until the day upon which the payment is actually received by the Council:

Provided that the Council shall be entitled in its absolute discretion to waive payment of such interest or part thereof in any individual instance.

(7)

In the event of the Council incurring any costs or becoming obliged to pay any costs of collection commission by reason of the failure of the Employer to make any payment on or before the due date, the Employer shall then also be liable to forthwith pay all such costs of whatever nature and any costs as between attorney and client and all such collection commission, and the Council shall be entitled in its absolute discretion to allocate any payment by the Employer firstly in satisfaction of such costs, collection commission and interest, and thereafter in reduction of the overdue capital amount.

(8)	The provisions of sections 98 and 100 (b) and (c) of the Act apply.