The CCMA provides a variety of workplace dispute resolution,
prevention and management services
Individual Employee / Employer
In this section you will find information on the range of dispute resolution and prevention functions the CCMA provides to individual employees and employers.
Unions, Employees, Employers, Employer Organisations
In this section you will find information on the range of dispute resolution and prevention functions the CCMA provides to individual employees and employers.
Bargaining Councils Accreditation
Any council may apply to the CCMA Governing Body in the prescribed form for accreditation to perform any of the following functions:
- resolving disputes through conciliation;
- arbitrating disputes that remain unresolved after conciliation if the LRA requires arbitration.
For more information call: (011) 377 6622
Essential Services Committee
The Essential Services Committee is established in terms of Section 70 of the Labour Relations Act.
The functions of the Committee are to:
- To monitor the implementation and observance of essential services determinations, minimum services agreements, maintenance services agreements and determinations.
- To promote effective dispute resolution in essential services.
- To develop guidelines for the negotiation of minimum services agreements.
- To decide, on its own initiative or at the reasonable request of any interested party, whether or not the whole or a part of any service is an essential service.
The Committee may only determine a service as essential where, in terms of Section 213 of the Act, it can be shown that an interruption of that service would, ‘endanger the life, personal safety or health of the whole or any part of the population’. Moreover, it would have to be established that a clear and imminent threat to the life, personal safety or the health of the whole or part of the population existed.
The ESC Committee members are as follows:
Luvuyo Bono
Chairperson
Joyce Nkopane
Provincial and National Government
Zwe Ndlala
Local Government
Nomazotsho Memani
Provincial and National Government
Makhubalo Ndaba
Labour
Clement Marule
Labour
Annelie Gildenhuys
Business
