Labour Relations Act, 1995 (Act No. 66 of 1995)

Regulations

Picketing Regulations

Default Picketing Rules

3. Circumstances of Workplace

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In establishing these Rules, the following circumstances of the workplace or other premises where pickets are intended have been taken into account:1

 

3.1[It is necessary to itemise the particular nature of the circumstances relating to the nature of employment and the workplace that have been taken into account in formulating these rules]

 

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1See s 69(5)(a). See also Shoprite Checkers (Ply) Ltd v Commission for Conciliation, Mediation & Arbitration & others (2006) 27 ILJ 2681 (LC) at par 31: "The matrix of permissible conduct that evolves ultimately as the picketing rules is a particular permutation that balances logistics, the nature of the business, the industrial relations history of the enterprise and the union with the impact of the picket so that the rules are determined not too narrowly or too broadly to exacerbate industrial conflict or obstruct the substantive resolution of the dispute."