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City Press reports that the private security industry has asked for its own bargaining council, which would possibly bring one of SA’s largest sources of employment into the statutory central bargaining system.
While such a new council might help root out the security industry’s infamous “compliance problems” around wages and benefits, the primary motive was to maintain the extraordinary “normal” hours of work in the sector, said Tony Botes of the Security Association of SA (Sasa). Sasa is an employer grouping representing 75 companies with 140,000 guards. Its application for a bargaining council was published in the Government Gazette last week, and is supported by another employer group, the SA National Security Employers’ Association, as well as 18 unions. The industry has a bargaining forum without statutory powers that produces wage deals that have tended to be wholly accepted by government and imposed on the whole sector in the form of a sectoral determination.
- Read this report by Dewald Van Rensburg in full at City Press
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