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

Regulations

Picketing Regulations

Default Picketing Rules

6. Nature and Conduct of Picket

 

6.1 Picketers must at all times conduct themselves in a peaceful, unarmed and lawful manner and not interfere with the constitutional rights of other persons.

 

6.2 Subject to clause 6.3, picketers may—
6.2.1 carry placards;
6.2.2 hand out pamphlets;
6.2.3 chant slogans, sing and dance;
6.2.4 be addressed by union officials; and
6.2.5 approach and peacefully seek to persuade clients and customers of the employer, members of the public, other employees who are not on strike and replacement workers not to enter the premises and/or to support the strike.

 

6.3 The Commissioner may limit the activities limited in clause 6.2 in respect of specific locations and detail them in Annexure A.3

 

6.4 Picketers may not—
6.4.1 forcefully prevent clients and customers of the employer, members of the public, other employees who are not on strike and replacement workers from entering or leaving the premises of the employer;
6.4.2 commit any action which may be unlawful, such as intimidating, coercing, threatening or assaulting any person or causing damage to any property;
6.4.3 wear masks; or
6.4.4 have any dangerous weapons or inflammable materials in their possession.

 

6.5 For the purposes of these Rules, dangerous weapons includes the dangerous objects listed in clause 22(2) of the Code of Good Practice on Collective Bargaining and Industrial Action.

 

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3 The Commissioner may for example limit the activity of a picket in a shopping mall or business complex to carrying placards and handing out pamphlets.