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

Notices

National Bargaining Council for the Chemical Industry

Petroleum Sector

Substantive Agreement 2025/2028

Chapter 2

7. Hours of Work
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Hours of work in the Petroleum sector are 40 hours per week, except for continuous operations where the hours of work are 42 hours per week.

 

The issue of compensation for the two (2) additional hours worked in continuous operations.

 

This plant level issue of the 2 additional hours, as applicable to individual employers, will be moved to the plant level and the following conditions will apply to such:

 

1.The parties agree to meet, at plant level, at least once within a period of sixty days after the signing of this wage agreement to discuss the issue of the working hours.

 

2.Should no agreement be reached, the parties agree that a task team facilitator will be immediately appointed and that the appointed task team facilitator shall be Commissioner Mduduzi Khumalo who will be appointed by the NBCCI as the task team facilitation and act as a mediator to mediate the matter.

 

3.Once the mediator has been appointed, the provisions as per the NBCCI negotiations procedure relating to the establishment of task teams will apply.

 

4.Should there be no agreement, the parties may agree to either have further mediation sessions or alternatively either party may exercise their rights to refer this matter to the bargaining council in terms of the LRA.