Looking back on the 1988 LRA amendments there is little doubt that when the former government accepted the recommendations of the Wiehahn Commission in 1979 they failed to understand the nature and effect of what changes to the...
Read MoreThe new social pact is reminiscent of the first tripartite Laboria Minute of 14 September 1990. In 1988 the government of the day unilaterally changed the labour laws advocated by the Wiehahn Commission and implemented in...
Read MoreDon’t try to lock unions out of the negotiating process Alan Fine Business Day 16 August 1990. “While government and the ANC have moved decisively to downgrade levels of physical and rhetorical conflict, relationships...
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