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

Notices

Bargaining Council for the Laundry Cleaning and Dyeing Industry

Kwa Zulu Natal

Extension to Non-Parties of the Main Collective Agreement

Part A

1. Scope of Application of Agreement

Purchase

1.1	The terms of this Agreement shall be observed in the Laundry, Cleaning and Dyeing Industry as defined in the registered scope of the Council.

"Laundry, Cleaning and Dyeing Industry" means without in any way limiting the ordinary meaning of the expression, the industry carried on in establishments, laundromats/laundrette, in house laundries within commercial sites where articles are laundered, cleaned or dyed to the order of the customers, and shall include depots and/or vehicles where such articles are received in order to be laundered, cleaned or dyed to the customers.

"Laundromats/Laundrette" is an established engaged in the washing, drying and ironing of primary domestic laundry, through coin/token operated automatic machines, using no steam from fuel fired boilers, and available for public use:

"In-house laundries" means laundries that are based within commercial sites that do commercial work for those establishments where articles are laundered, cleaned or dyed.

(a)	In the Province of Kwa-Zulu Natal

(b)	by all employers who are members of the employers' organisation and who are engaged in the Laundry, Cleaning and Dyeing Industry (Kwa Zulu Natal),and by all employees who are members of the trade union and who are employed in the said Industry;

1.2	Notwithstanding the provisions of clause 1, the terms of this Agreement shall apply only to employees for whom minimum wages are prescribed in this Agreement and to employers of such employees.

1.3	The terms of the Agreement do not apply to non-parties in respect of clauses Part A,(1) (1) (b) and 2.