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South African Engineers and Founders Association

The SA Engineers and Founders Association (SAEFA) represents the interests of hundreds of member companies in the metal and engineering industry. These companies range in size from very small employers to large multinational organisations. SAEFA not only offers a wide range of direct services to member companies but also represents the interests of our members at both industry and national levels. 

SAEFA’s direct services to member companies, available at a reduced fee to these companies compared to what a non-member company would pay in the market, include assistance on all matters affecting the relationship between themselves and their employees/trade unions – for example:

  • Dispute resolution, conciliation, mediation and arbitration services 
  • Advice, assistance, consultancy and training on labour legislation, employment conditions and all other Industrial Relations matters
  • Assistance is also provided with health and safety matters, broad-based black economic empowerment, contract price adjustments and skills development through our affiliate organisations

For full information on these services contact SAEFA’s Executive Director, Gordon Angus, at gordon@saefa.co.za. 

SAEFA also represents the interests of our member companies in all industry negotiations with the industry’s trade unions, not only on wages and other conditions of employment but also on the industry’s benefit funds which provide benefits to employees such as pensions, permanent disability and sick pay benefits. SAEFA has its own seats at the MEIBC, participating directly in all activities there.

Being a member of SAEFA allows you to have a direct say in what happens in your industry.

 

News

Wage Negotiation Advisory No. 15

7 July 2017

Parties to the wage talks met on Wednesday and Thursday this week but were unfortunately unable to resolve the dispute declared by the trade unions on 15 June 2017.

The reason for the parties not being able to resolve the dispute is abundantly clear:  whatever move is placed before the trade unions is simply rejected without eliciting any move whatsoever.  Be that as it may, in one last ditch effort to resolve the current impasse, the employers tabled a revised position, which included the following:

Updates from Wage Talks

6 July 2017

Please see the joint employer updates following yesterday and today’s engagement with the trade unions. 

A full, detailed report of the two-day engagement will follow in the Wage Negotiation Advisory No 15.

Joint Employer Caucus Communication Brief Day 6 and 7

Joint Employer Caucus Communication Brief for Employee's Day 6 and 7

Wage Offer 5 July 2017

 

Joint Employer Caucus Communication

30 June 2017

Please see the latest communication from the joint employer caucus following the second round of industry wage negotiations. 

Joint Employer Caucus Communication Day 4 and 5

Joint Employer Caucus Communication Brief for Employees's Day 4 and 5

Wage Negotiation Advisory No. 14

30 June 2017

Wage talks continued on 28 and 29 June 2017 at the MEIBC.  The meetings are the first meetings of the subcommittee nominated by the Management Committee of the MEIBC to try and resolve the current dispute between the parties, under the facilitation of Afzul Soobedaar.

The employer lead negotiator, was requested at the commencement of the first day to seek a mandate from the joint employer caucus on 5 issues:

  1. Wage increases and the issue of them being given on minimums vs actuals
  2. New entrant wage rates
  3. Wording on Section 37 of the Main Agreement (the section which is intended to protect employers against a compulsion to bargain at company level)
  4. A revised exemptions procedure
  5. The backdating of wage increases