- Title
- The contribution of the Labour Court to the development of strike law
- Creator
- Nengovhela, Livhuwani Adolphus
- Subject
- Strikes and lockouts -- Law and legislation -- South Africa
- Subject
- Labor laws and legislation -- South Africa
- Subject
- Labor courts -- South Africa
- Date Issued
- 2005
- Date
- 2005
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- LLM
- Identifier
- vital:10191
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/430
- Identifier
- Strikes and lockouts -- Law and legislation -- South Africa
- Identifier
- Labor laws and legislation -- South Africa
- Identifier
- Labor courts -- South Africa
- Description
- The Labour Relations Act 66 of 1995 brought a number of changes in the labour relations environment from its inception on 11 November 1996. The Act codified Industrial Court decisions that were already established under the strike-law jurisprudence from the Labour Relations Act 28 of 1956. These general changes to the law also impact on the strike-law regime. The purpose of this paper is to give an overview of the contributions made by the Labour Courts1 in developing strike law from the inception of the Act. The Labour Courts have made a number of decisions that have helped in clarifying the provisions of the Act. One should hasten to say that this has never been a smooth process by the courts. It will further be shown in this paper that some of the court decisions were not well accepted in the light of other considerations, such as the Constitution and the previous Industrial Court decisions. On some occasions the Constitutional Court had to intervene in order to clarify the intention of the legislature. For the purpose of effectively dealing with this topic, I shall briefly give the historical context of strike law in the form of common-law position, and the strike-law position before the Bill of Rights and the Constitution. I shall then endeavour to identify the legislative provision of the Act when it comes to strike-law provisions, at the same time identifying the important court decisions that were made.
- Format
- ii, 64 pages
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Law
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
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