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

Notices

Bargaining Council for the Metal and Engineering Industries

Main Collective Agreement

Part 2

5. Annexures

Annexure G

Attendance of Worker Representatives on National and Regional Bargaining Council Committees

 

▪ The employer and trade union parties agree that it is important that workers representatives, appointed by the unions to serve on the Bargaining Council National and Regional Committees, should participate at that level.

 

▪ To this end the trade unions will by 31 January of each year, notify the Council Secretary in writing of the names and contact details of the union worker representatives appointed to serve on these National and Regional Committees.

 

▪ The Council will maintain a register of these union representatives.

 

▪ The Council will, during February each year, notify the companies concerned of the appointment of their employees onto the specific Bargaining Council Committee/s and of the scheduled meeting dates of the committee/s for the year ahead.

 

▪ Where the company is unable, for operational or other valid reasons to accept the absence of the employee on the dates concerned it shall immediately communicate with the Council in order that the problem be addressed.  The Council Secretary may call upon a senior trade union official and employer representatives to assist in attempting to achieve an amicable resolution of the problem, including meeting with the employer in order to address the specific problems identified.

 

▪ Absence from the workplace to attend each scheduled meeting must be based on reasonable prior notice of the meeting to the employer supported by the presentation of the Agenda of the Meeting by the worker representative.

 

▪ The representative’s traveling and accommodation expenses will be borne by the Council.