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

Notices

Bargaining Council for the Furniture Manufacturing Industry

Addendum 1 : Contributions, Levies and Registration Fees payable to the Council

6. Council Levies

 

6.1 Council levies shall be  payable to the Council at the prescribed rates by the employer and employee when more than 10 hours' wages per week are payable to an employee. To determine the number of hours worked by the employee, the calculation must include the ordinary hours worked by the employee as well as the hours which would ordinarily have been worked by the employee on:
6.1.1 paid public holidays;
6.1.2 trade union representative leave days;
6.1.3 the first 3 days per annum of paid sick leave days on condition that an acceptable  medical  certificate  is  presented  by  the  employee  to  his employer and that such sick leave days do not fan on a Monday or a Friday or on the day before or after a public holiday;  and

6.1.4     family responsibility leave days for the first 2 days only which are related to the death of an employee's spouse, life partner, employee's parent, adoptive parent, grandparent, child, adopted child, grandchild or sibling and upon submission of the relevant death certificate by the employee to his employer.

 

6.2 The Council levies payable to the Council shall amount to:
6.2.1 From the first full pay week in May 2018 and for non-parties on such date as may be determined by the Minister of Labour until April 2019

R10-60 per week payable by the employer and R10-60 per week payable by the employee.

6.2.2 From the first full pay week in May 2019 until April 2020

R11-70  per week  payable  by the  employer  and R11-70  per week  payable  by the employee,

[Clause 6(6.2) substituted by section 13 of Notice No. 1465, GG 41350, dated 22 December 2017]