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

Notices

Bargaining Council for the Civil Engineering Industry

Main Collective Agreement

Extension of Construction Industry Retirement Benefit Fund Amending Collective Agreement to Non-parties

1. Scope of Application of Agreement

 

1.1 The terms of this Agreement shall apply to and be observed—
(a) throughout the Republic of South Africa and
(b) by all employers and employees in the Civil Engineering Industry who are members of the employers' organisations and the trade unions, respectively.

 

1.2. All the employers who do not have a retirement benefit fund in favour of their employees in place, shall by publication of this agreement join the Construction Industry Retirement Benefit Fund.

 

1.3. The rules of the retirement benefit fund referred to in this Agreement shall require that employers and employees contribute equally in respect of each employee's membership of the retirement benefit fund. Provided that a fund which provides solely for payment of benefits on death and disability shall not be deemed to be a pension or provident fund for the purposes of this Agreement.

 

1 4. Notwithstanding the above, clause 1.2 will not apply to employers contributing to an existing Retirement Benefit Fund, registered in terms of the Pension Fund Act of 1956, which was fully operational before the publication of this agreement.

 

1.5. This agreement becomes binding on the employers and employees referred to in sub-clause 1.1 to 1.4 once it is extended to non -parties by the Honourable Minister of Labour.