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

Notices

Bargaining Council for the Furniture Manufacturing Industry

Western Cape

Extension to non-parties of the Main Collective Agreement

Part l

B - Terms and conditions of employment

Clause 16 - Hours of work

Purchase

(1)	Normal Working Hours

(a)

Save as is otherwise provided in this Agreement, no Employer shall require or permit an Employee, other than foremen, managers, sub-managers, senior managerial, professional, technical or administrative personnel in receipt of a salary of not less than the amount specified in the Basic Conditions of Employment Act, as amended from time to time and at the signing of this agreement equated to R205 433.30 per annum:—

(i)	to work for more than 44 hours normal time, excluding meal intervals, in any one working week, comprising of:—

(a)	Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.

(b)	The Employer must decide on the firm's ordinary weekly working hours from a range of ordinary weekly working hours from 40 hours to a maximum of 44 hours per week.

(c)	The Employer must inform Employees and the Council of their firm's ordinary weekly working hours and to display them in a conspicuous place within the workplace.

(d)

Should an Employer wish to change the firm's ordinary working hours from what they had notified the Council and their Employees they would be required to apply for an exemption from the Council before implementing any change to their ordinary weekly working hours. The Council may require seventy five per cent of the firm's Employees to support the proposed change to the firm's ordinary weekly working hours.

(2)	Overtime Hours

(a)	All hours worked in excess of a firm's normal weekly working hours must be paid in accordance with section 10 of the Basic Conditions of Employment Act, 75 of 1997.

(b)	Drivers and Drivers Assistants - Driver's and Driver's Assistants may not work more than twelve hours per day and more than 15 hours overtime in any one pay week.

(c)	Top Up Lost Normal Time Hours - overtime hours in the same pay week can be used to top up lost normal time hours of the same pay week before overtime becomes payable.

(d)

Every Employer shall display in his establishment in a place readily accessible to his Employees a notice in the form prescribed in Annexure C to this Part of the Agreement specifying the starting and finishing time of work for each day of the week, forenoon and afternoon intervals and the meal interval.