25 September 2014

 

Today the National Employers’ Association of South Africa (NEASA) lodged an urgent application in the Labour Court to prevent the Metal and Engineering Bargaining Council (MEIBC) from requesting the Minister of Labour to extend the July 2014 agreement between the federation Seifsa and trade unions, to parties/employers who were not party to that agreement.

 

All indications are that the MEIBC wants to push through its request to Minister Mildred Oliphant expeditiously. The Minister’s officials have al