Labour DG Nhleko calls for stabilization of collective bargaining environment through innovative practice and multi-year agreements (South Africa Government)

(Source: South Africa Government) Despite a volatile labour market the 2013 bargaining season is going to be especially important in showing that collective bargaining is still the best way of bridging differences between business and labour, as well as cultivation of a social dialogue culture, said Department of Labour (DoL) Director General Nkosinathi Nhleko. Nhleko said the bargaining season had arrived, and South African negotiators are preparing for the 2013 collective bargaining round at a time when collective bargaining was under attack from a number of quarters. He said on the one hand were innumerable legal challenges to collective bargaining and the extension of collective...