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Outsourcing company challenges extension of bargaining agreement to non-parties in road freight and logistics sector

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labourcourtsTimesLive reports that Innovative Staffing Solutions (ISS) has launched an urgent application before the Labour Court in which it seeks to block the extension of the collective agreement in the road freight and logistics sector to non-members.

On Monday, the outsourcing company, which provides permanent employment to more than 36,000 staff, brought an application in two parts. In part A, ISS asked the court, pending the determination of a challenge at a later date in part B, to interdict the National Bargaining Council for the Road Freight and Logistics Industry (NBCRFLI) from enforcing its main collective agreement against ISS. In Part B, ISS asked for an order reviewing and setting aside the decision of the minister of employment and labour to extend the period of the operation of the NBCRFLI’s main agreement to non-parties as published in a government gazette of 11 February 2022. It also wants the extension of the period of operation of the main collective agreement to 2024 to be invalid and of no force and effect. “In reality, this extension risks forcing even more companies to reduce benefits to employees, cut back on salaries, and even potentially causing job losses at ISS to force compliance with the NBCRFLI,” according to ISS. The company remains locked in a legal battle against the bargaining council over the question of whether it falls within the council’s jurisdiction, and subsequently whether it should be forced to comply with the council’s main collective agreement. ISS wants the urgent application to be heard next month.

  • Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Ernest Mabuza at TimesLive
  • Read too, Outsourcing company approaches labour court over extension of wage deal, at BusinessLive (subscriber access only)


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