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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

Risk Adjusted Strategy Regulations

30 April 2020

We’re pleased to be able to inform you that the Risk Adjusted Strategy Regulations published last night are more relaxed than the draft proposal originally contemplated, with “steel and other metals” manufacturing being permitted to scale up to 50% employment. Please use the link below to access the regulations:

http://www.cogta.gov.za/cgta_2016/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Risk-Adjusted-Strategy-Regulations-Gazetted-COGTA_compressed.pdf

COVID-19 OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY MEASURES IN WORKPLACES COVID-19 (C19 OHS), 2020

29 April 2020

Please see below important directives gazetted today, 29 April 2020 for your attention:

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY MEASURES IN WORKPLACES

 

Webinar: Implementing Short-Time, Lay-Offs and Retrenchments - 30 April 2020

28 April 2020

The metal and engineering industry is now under more pressure than ever before, following the COVID-19 pandemic and consequent lockdown.  Coupled with collective bargaining arrangements that have led to unsustainably high labour costs, 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 2-hour webinar to guide employers through the legislative requirements of the Labour Relations Act and other applicable laws.

Please see below for details:

Short Time Lay off Retrenchement Workshop Flyer

Guidelines on amendments of regulations

27 April 2020

Please see below important information relating to the amendments to regulations.  It is our intention to update this document regularly as amendments and regulations are gazetted.  Our sincerest thanks to Fiona Leppan, Director in the Employment practice at Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr Inc. and her team for their hard work in preparing the guidelines.

SAEFA GUIDELINE