Electronic Communications and Transactions Act, 2002
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Labour Relations Act, 1995 (Act No. 66 of 1995)NoticesNational Bargaining Council for the Chemical IndustryGlass Sector2023/2025 Collective AgreementChapter 1 - Scope and Effective Date and Definitions1. Scope of Agreement |
| 1.1. | This agreement is applicable to all employees in the bargaining unit as defined in the existing company recognition agreements. The extension of the scope is a company/plant-level issue. |
| 1.2. | The manufacture, melting, decoration, distribution. conversion, and storage processes of glass products in the following markets: |
| (a) | Packaging and container ware. |
| (b) | Blown glass, whether this is performed mechanically or manually, including glass bending. |
| (c) | Building glass for building, architectural, toughening, and silvering use, including application. |
| (d) | Automotive glass for original equipment and replacement, including application. |
| (e) | Fibreglass, mineral wools, slagwool and rockwool. |
| (f) | Insulator glass and fibreglass and continuous filament products. |
| (g) | Glass tableware. |
| (h) | Glass for pharmaceutical purposes. |
| (i) | Cutting and colouring activities. |
| (j) | Covering, including any articles consisting wholly or mainly of glass. |
| (k) | Safety glass and laminated glass. |
| (l) | Talc, kaolin, bentonite, and limestone, |
| 2. | And includes all operations incidental to those activities, but excludes the activities of the 'glazing', 'shop, office, and bank fitting' and 'painting' trades of the building industry. |
| 3. | The extraction. processing and distribution of industrial minerals and other non-metallic mineral products that are specifically employed in the manufacture of glass and/or glass products, or are by-products of the extraction and processing of silicate, glass sand or any other non-metallic mineral product primarily for use in the manufacture of glass, and all operations incidental to these activities. |
