Labour Relations Act, 1995 (Act No. 66 of 1995)NoticesBargaining Council for the Furniture Manufacturing IndustryExtension to Non-Parties of the Main Collective AgreementAddendum 1: Fees, Levies and Contributions payable to the Council3. Provident Fund Contributions |
| 3.1 | Provident Fund contributions shall be payable to the Council at the prescribed rates by the employer and employee when more than 20 hours' wages per week are payable to an employee. To determine the number of the hours worked by the employee, the calculation must include the ordinary hours worked by the employee as well as the hours which would ordinarily have been worked by the employee on: |
| 3.1.1 | paid public holidays; |
| 3.1.2 | trade union representative leave days; |
| 3.1.3 | the first 3 days per annum of paid sick leave days on condition that an acceptable medical certificate is presented by the employee to his employer and that such sick leave days do not fall on a Monday or a Friday or on the day before or after a public holiday; and |
| 3.1.4 | family responsibility leave days for the first 2 days only which are related to the death of an employee's spouse, life partner, employee's parent, adoptive parent. grandparent, child, adopted child, grandchild or sibling and upon submission of the relevant death certificate by the employee to his employer. |
| 3.2 | The Provident Fund contributions payable to the Council shall be calculated on a sliding scale per wage band for all Occupation Skills Levels, as follows: |
3.2.1 |
Wages from R0 to R1 200 per week |
5% of normal weekly wages from the employee per week, calculated on the establishment's normal ordinary hours of work per week plus an equal amount from the employer.
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3.2.2 |
Wages from above R1 200 to R1 500 p/w |
5.2% of normal weekly wages from the employee per week, calculated on the establishment's normal ordinary hours of work per week plus an equal amount from the employer.
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3.2.3 |
Wages from above R1 500 - R2 000 p/w |
5.35% of normal weekly wages from the employee per week, calculated on the establishment's normal ordinary hours of work per week plus an equal amount from the employer.
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3.2.4 |
Wages from above R2 000 per week
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5.5% of normal weekly wages from the employee per week, calculated on the establishment's normal ordinary hours of work per week plus an equal amount from the employer.
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3.2.5 |
Working employers: |
11% of a foreman's prescribed weekly wage.
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