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

Codes of Good Practice

Protest Action to Promote or Defend Socio-Economic Interests of Workers (Section 77 of the Act)

Part A: Introduction

3. Abbreviations and definitions
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Unless the context otherwise indicates, the following have meanings assigned to them in the table below—

 

(1)"days"

refers to calendar days;

 

(2)"Digest"

refers to the Digest of the decisions and principles of the Freedom of Association Committee of the Governing Body of the ILO; Fifth (revised) edition 2006;

 

(3)"Executive Director"

means the Executive Director of NEDLAC appointed in terms of clause 17.2 of the NEDLAC Constitution or an alternate appointed by the Executive Director;

 

(4)"facilitator"

means a facilitator referred to in item 21;

 

(5)"ILO"

means the International Labour Organisation;

 

(6)"LRA"

means the Labour Relations Act 66 of 1995, and includes any regulation made in terms thereof;

 

(7)"Labour Relations Regulations"

means the Regulations published under section 208 of the LRA;1

 

(8)"NEDLAC"

means National Economic, Development and Labour Council established in terms of section 2(1) of the National Economic, Development and Labour Council Act 35 of 1994;

 

(9)"referring party"

means the registered trade union or trade unions or federation or federations of trade unions which refer a matter of socio­ economic interest to workers to NEDLAC; and

 

(10)"respondent party"

means the party or parties to whom the section 77 referral is directed and which are required to consider the matter giving rise to the intended protest action.

 

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1 GNR.1016 of 19 December 2014 (GG No. 38317), as amended by GNR.816 of 8 July 2016 (GG No. 40128), GNR.24 of 22 January 2019 (GG No. 42178), GNR.468 of 27 March 2019 (GG No. 42335) and GNR.1139 of 23 October 2020 (GG No. 43835).