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

Notices

Bargaining Council for the Building Industry, Cape of Good Hope

Extension to Non-parties of the Main Consolidated Collective Agreement

Chapter Six: Employee Benefit Schemes

32. Sick Pay Fund
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This clause must be read in conjunction with The Building Industry Sick Pay Fund Rules ("the Rules"), published and amended from time to time. Where there is a conflict between this Agreement and the Rules of this fund, the Agreement will prevail.

 

(1)The Sick Pay Fund for the Building Industry ("the Fund") is hereby continued and shall continue to be administered by the Council for the purposes of recompensing employees during periods of absence from work due to incapacity and paying gratuities to employees in the event of permanent disability, in accordance with the Rules of the Fund.

 

(2)The fund shall be administered by the Council in accordance with the Rules which it may make from time to time for this purpose, and all moneys of the Fund shall be administered, invested, and paid out in accordance with the Rules (as amended). Electronic copies of the Rules are available for inspection on the Council's website.

 

(3)Every employer shall contribute to the Fund in respect of each normal working day that an eligible employee works, an amount which shall be calculated as follows, from the date of coming into operation of this Agreement to 31 October 2026:

 

Category of Employee

Contribution per day

Labourer

R 4.24

General Worker

R 5.52

Tradesman Class 4

R 5.84

Tradesman Class 3

R 6.47

Tradesman Class 2

R 8.81

Drivers / Plant operators Code C1

R 7.71

Drivers code A, A1 or B

R 5.81

Artisan

R 16.43

Security Guard

R 6.19

Apprenticeship Year 1

R 4.24

Apprenticeship Year 2

R 5.61

Apprenticeship Year 3

R 8.85

 

(4)For the period 01 November 2026 to 31 October 2027 the contributions applicable from 01 November 2025 shall be increased by 5.5% for all labour categories.

 

(5)For the period 01 November 2027 to 31 October 2028 the contributions applicable from 01 November 2026 shall be increased by 5.5% for all labour categories.

 

(6)The Fund shall continue to pay employer contributions to the Holiday and Bonus Fund and the Building Industry Medical Aid Fund on behalf of an employee during a period of one or more consecutive days in any pay week that the employee receives sick pay in terms of this clause and the Rules.

 

(7)In the event of the expiration of this Agreement, the dissolution or winding up of the Council or a cessation of its operations, the provisions of clause 30(7), (8), (9) and (10) relating to the Holiday and Bonus Fund shall apply equally to this Fund.

 

(8)In the event of the liquidation of the Holiday Fund and Bonus Fund in terms of sub clause (7) the moneys remaining after the payment of all claims against the Fund, including administration and liquidation expenses, shall be paid into the general funds of the Council. In the event of the Council having been wound up before the liquidation of the Fund the monies remaining shall be distributed equally among the parties to the Council immediately prior to its dissolution.