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

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Bargaining Council for the Furniture Manufacturing Industry

Extension to Non-Parties of the Main Collective Agreement

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

5. Council Levies

 

6.1 Council levies shall be payable to the Council at the prescribed rates by the employer and employee when more than 1 hour or more 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 fall 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 date of coming into operation of this Agreement until 30 April 2021

R12-46 per week per employee payable by the employer and R12-46 per week payable by the employee.

 

6.2.2 From the first full pay week of May 2021 until 30 April 2022

R13-21 per week per employee payable by the employer and R13-21 per week payable by the employee.

 

6.2.3 From the first full pay week of May 2022 until 30 April 2023

R14-00 per week per employee payable by the employer and R14-00 per week payable by the employee.

[Addendum 1 Clause 6(6.2) substituted by section 16 of Notice No. 333, GG43447, dated 19 June 2020]