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

Regulations

Essential Service Committee Regulations

Part C - General Provisions

22. When the ESC may consolidate disputes
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The ESC or a Panel Chairperson, on its own accord or on application, may consolidate more than one dispute so that the disputes may be dealt with in the same proceedings.

 

The Committee or Panel Chairperson may order consolidation of separate disputes where:

 

(a)The relief sought in each of the separate disputes to be consolidated depends on the determination of similar or substantially the same questions of law and/ fact.

 

(b)there will be no substantial prejudice on the party or parties sought to be joined through a consolidation order.

 

(c)the Committee has jurisdiction on all the disputes sought to be consolidated.