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

Notices

Bargaining Council for the Civil Engineering Industry: Conditions of Employment Collective Agreement

Chapter 2 : Regulation of Working Time

2.12. Short time
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Whenever the ordinary hours of work prescribed in Clause 2.2 are reduced on account of short-time, excluding short-time owing to inclement weather, a deduction may be made from the employee's wage not exceeding the amount of the employee's hourly wage in respect of each hour of such reduction provided that;

 

2.12.1.Such deduction shall not exceed one third of the employee's weekly wage, irrespective of the number of hours by which the ordinary hours of work were reduced;

 

2.12.2. No deduction shall be made in the case of short-time arising from slackness of trade or shortage of raw materials, unless the employer has given the employee notice on the previous working day of the employer's intention to reduce the ordinary hours of work;

 

2.12.3. No deduction shall be made in the case of short-time owing to a breakdown of plant or machinery or a breakdown or threatened breakdown of buildings or structures, in respect of the first two hours not worked, unless the employer has given the employee notice on the previous working day that no work would be available due to such breakdown.