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Employers are advised to make contingency plans in the light of planned COSATU protest action on 7 March 2012.<\/p>\n
Faan Coetzee, a Director in the Employment Practice at Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr business law firm says, \u201cA number of employees are expected to heed the call from COSATU to join in nationwide protest action. Significant disruption may be caused when workers opt to join the protest rather than go to work. The protest action is in support of a ban on labour brokering and the scrapping of the e-Toll system in Gauteng. Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan announced in his Budget Speech yesterday that tolling on the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project\u00a0 will begin on April 30.<\/p>\n
Coetzee explains that for the protest action to be protected, NEDLAC must first consider the subject matter thereof. According to the NEDLAC website the matter was declared \u201cconsidered\u201d in a meeting held on 30 January 2012. The media reported that NEDLAC had confirmed that there was a deadlock between the various parties on the matter.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Labour Relations Act defines protest action as the partial or complete refusal to work, or the retardation or obstruction of work, for the purpose of promoting or defending the socio-economic interests of workers.<\/p>\n
\u201cA strike, on the other hand, has the purpose of remedying a grievance or resolving a dispute in respect of a \u201cmatter of mutual interest\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is not collective bargaining that is at stake when employees embark on protest action as protest action involves not only the rights of employees and employers, but also the interest of the public at large and, in certain instances, the effect on the national economy,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n
Coetzee notes that a call for the outright banning of labour brokering in South Africa is an issue of State policy and general socio-economic concern and not a demand to any specific employer or employer parties, which makes it protest action.<\/p>\n
\u201cAny employee may legally participate in protected protest action once the formalities have been complied with at NEDLAC.<\/p>\n
\u201cParticipating employees may not be disciplined and the principle of no-work, no-pay will apply,\u201d Coetzee adds.<\/p>\n
Editor\u2019s Notes:<\/strong> Dear Zanoxolo I am well aware of your deep roots in the trade union movement, please remember that you are now a \u2018boss\u2019 and bosses don\u2019t strike, OKAY? I shall be popping in to check on you, have the coffee ready please. AND don\u2019t forget to tell the BEST DRESSED BODYGUARD in South Africa<\/a> to expect me.<\/p>\n \t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Employers are advised to make contingency plans in the light of planned COSATU protest action on 7 March 2012. Faan Coetzee, a Director in the Employment Practice at Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr business law firm says, \u201cA number of employees are expected to heed the call from COSATU to join in nationwide protest action. Significant disruption […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1289,5],"class_list":{"0":"post-8397","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mype","8":"tag-port-elizabeth-2","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}