- Title
- The protection offered in terms of the 2014 labour law amendments to fixed-term Contract and part-time employees
- Creator
- Ntsebeza, Uonella
- Subject
- Labor laws and legislation -- South Africa
- Subject
- Labor contract -- South Africa Employee rights -- South Africa Labor market -- laws and legislation -- South Africa
- Date Issued
- 2018
- Date
- 2018
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- LLM
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/33567
- Identifier
- vital:32888
- Description
- Labour law knows that employers are generally in a stronger bargaining position than employees.1Therefore, labour law is largely premised on the idea of protection of the interest of employees. Fixed term employees2 as ‘atypical’3 or ‘conditional’ employees are particularly weak bargaining parties in the employment relationship. It is common practice for employers to treat fixed term and part-time employees differently to their permanent colleagues. Temporary employment relationships are often associated with the withholding of rights and benefits, lack of job security, deprivation of status and poor remuneration. Fixed term employees are also likely to be more exposed to exploitation, particularly those who are not highly skilled. 4In addition, they often do not enjoy trade union protection and are not covered by collective agreements. Most of these workers are unskilled or work in sectors with limited trade union organisation and limited coverage by collective bargaining, leaving them vulnerable to exploitation. Therefore, fixed term employees are more inclined to depend on the statutory protection enacted to ensure basic working conditions. These employees are often not recruited into trade unions due to the precarious or temporary nature of their work fixed term employees are more inclined to depend on statutory protection enacted to ensure basic working conditions.
- Format
- iv, 63 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Law
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela University
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