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

Notices

Bargaining Council for the Furniture Manufacturing Industry

South Western Districts

Main Collective Agreement

Part l

B. Terms and Conditions of Employment

15. Piecework

 

(1) No employer shall require or allow any person to work according to a system by which earnings are based on quantity of work done, except as provided in clause 16.

 

(2) The failure to comply with subclause 1 here above, the employer shall pay a penalty as stipulated in Schedule 2 table 1 of the Basic Conditions of Employment Act, 1997 (Act No.75 of 1997), as amended. Such payment shall be made to the Council, as follows:—

 

Table One: Maximum Permissible Fine not Involving an Underpayment

 

No previous failure to comply

R300 per employee in respect of whom the failure to comply occurs

A previous failure to comply in respect of the same provision

R600 per employee in respect of whom the failure to comply occurs

A previous failure to comply within the previous 12 months or two previous  failures to comply in respect of the same provision within three years

R900 per employee in respect of whom the failure to comply occurs

Three previous failures to comply in respect of the same provision within  three years

R1200 per employee in respect of whom the failure to comply occurs

Four previous failures to comply in respect of the same provision within three years

R1500 per employee in respect of whom the failure to comply occurs