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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 Negotiations Advisory No. 1

22 February 2017

This is the first of regular updates on the Main Agreement negotiations. 

It has come to our attention that SEIFSA is actively campaigning against our Association in an attempt to persuade our members to resign from SA Engineers and Founders.  It’s extremely unfortunate that SEIFSA has chosen to react in this aggressive and confrontational manner.  SA Engineers and Founders, in the best interests of the industry, is committed to fixing and building relationships between employer associations and not destroying them.  Some of the claims made by SEIFSA in correspondence with members and potential members of SA Engineers and Founders Association however, cannot go unanswered.

The latest SA Engineers & Founders Association EEA Workshop - 1 June 2017

Don’t Risk Harsher Penalties for Non-Compliance with the Employment Equity Act

The recently released 17th Commission for Employment Equity Report has led to the Department of Labour adopting a harsher stance on non-compliance with the Employment Equity Act, with the Department now contemplating adopting harsher consequences for companies who do not meet the obligations of the Act.

The South African Engineers and Founders Association, in partnership with Gordon Angus and Associates, is presenting a half-day workshop on how to deal with your obligations under the Employment Equity Act.
 
To learn more about the Employment Equity Act and its impact on your business, book your place (booking form attached) on our training workshop, Effective Implementation of the Employment Equity Act being held on 1 June 2017, or email us to discuss in-house training options.  Email Gordon for more details: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..   

Message from the SAEFA Chairman

The SA Engineers and Founders Association is extremely pleased to have seen, and been part of, the great turnout at the public marches on Friday 7th April in support of removing President Zuma and ending the rampant corruption that is crippling SA.


All of us as South Africans have to stand together and show that we will no longer tolerate what has been done to us a country by those who were elected to be the custodians thereof.


We urge all businesses owners, managers, employees and every single SA citizen who desperately wants a better country to keep up with public activism in every way possible, and to drive and be the change we all want and need.


SA Engineers and Founders is committed to this essential movement, and extends an open invitation to collaboration with all other like-minded patriots.

Ross Williams
Chairman
The South African Engineers and Founders Association

The Latest SAEFA Retrenchment Workshop - 8 May 2017

Are You Considering Implementing Short-Time, Lay-Offs or Retrenchments in 2017?

The past ten days have, once again, rocked the South African economy. After a difficult 2015 when the commodities slump, felt particularly hard in the metal sector, led to slower economic growth, many companies had to sprint just to stand still. Then came the firing of then Finance Minister Nene and now the firing of ex-Finance Minister Gordhan. The forecast for the rest of 2017 is dire and for many companies this means that short-time, lay-offs and even retrenchments may need to be considered as means of survival. 

Legislation regulating these processes requires that specific procedures be adhered to. These legal requirements can often prove daunting to employers, particularly those who have never implemented short-time, lay-offs or retrenchments before or who have not had to for some time.
The South African Engineers’ and Founders’ Association, in association with Gordon Angus and Associates is running a workshop to guide employers through the legislative requirements of the Labour Relations Act as well as the industry’s Collective Main Agreement with regard to implementing short-time, lay-offs and retrenchments.