Labour Relation

TABLE OF CONTENT

Overview of the South African Labour Relation 3

1. Introduction 3

2. Promotion 4

2.1. Having a good performance management system in place is essential. 4

2.2 Advertise the position internally 4

2.3 Often disputes around promotion emerge where external 5

2.4 Promotion process should be well documented 5

3. Conclusion 5

4. Abbreviations 5

5. References 6

Overview of the South African Labour Relation

History with regard to Labour relation has been a pressing issue South African since the arrival of the first Dutch settlers in 1662, where black were expected to do manual Labour. In the 18 centaury followed the industrialization and the 1st union in south Africa was the carpenters and Joiners. During the 19 century industries in South African begun to grow rapidly this industries began to employ black male and white female in numbers and several trade unions were registered. In the 1950 the then government passed the law Suppression of communism Act to ban political organization that supported union. Due to the shortcoming of existing Labour legislation the government introduces Bantu Labour Relation Regulation Act. There was pressure from the international investor for the government to reform.

Post-apartheid era there was urgent need to transform Labour legislation, the new government set to overhaul the whole legislative framework of Labour relation to give fruits to the new constitution and to bring into line with the international standard .But finally, the new Labour Relation Act, Basic Condition of Employment Act, Employment Equity Act, Skill development Act were in place .This was just a short brief overview of our Labour Relation.

1. Introduction

Without adhering to Labour relation, work relation organization can forget about being more competitive. Whether you are self-employed, work for a private company or Public services, good relationship between employees in the workplace are key...