- Title
- The validity of dismissals for refusing to accept changes to terms and conditions of employment
- Creator
- Bosch, Lauren
- Subject
- Employees -- Dismissal of -- Law and legislation
- Date Issued
- 2020
- Date
- 2020
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- LLM
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/47336
- Identifier
- vital:39848
- Description
- Operational circumstances often create the need for employers to change the employment conditions of employees. Such conditions can include difficulty in obtaining raw materials which may require employees to do different work, a takeover or a merger, market shifts, orders from clients, an increase or reduction in work volumes, new technology, or even in some instances skill shortages. Regardless of the reason, in order to allow the business to remain operational, employers are often obligated to change terms and conditions of employment. Section 187 of the Labour Relations Act 66 of 1995 deals with automatically unfair dismissals and lists a number of reasons for dismissal that, if it complies with the requirements listed, the dismissal will be found to be automatically unfair. The definition was amended by the Labour Relations Amendment Act 6 of 2014 as a result of the courts incorrectly interpreting this section in Chemical Workers Industrial Union (CWIU) v Algorax (Pty) Limited (2003 11 BLLR 1081) (Algorax) and Fry's Metals (Pty) Limited v National Union of Metal Workers of South Africa and Others (JA9/01) [2002] ZALAC 25 (Fry’s Metals). Section 187(1)(c) of the LRA has always been contentious due to the fact that the definition of automatically unfair dismissals, employers’ rights to terminate contracts of employment on the basis of operational requirements and the institution of collective bargaining are intertwined. The Labour Relations Amendment Act of 2014 brought about significant changes to how section 187(1)(c) should be interpreted and fundamentally changed the enquiry that should be adopted when determining cases of this nature. The main aim of this study is to provide clarity to the question of when will it be valid and fair for an employer, in the course of restructuring his business, to dismiss any of his employees who refuse to accept the proposed changes to the terms and conditions of their employment.
- Format
- ii, 52 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Law
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela University
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