Minister of Labour Membathisi Mdladlana has appointed advocate Edwin Molahlehi, former Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration director, as the chairperson of the Essential Services Committee.
The essential services refer to those services the interruption of which endangers the life, personal safety or health of the whole or any part of the population, the Parliamentary Services and the South African Police Service.
The role of the essential services committee is to determine whether or not the whole or a part of any service is an essential service; and to determine whether or not to designate the whole or a part of that service as an essential service. This then determines whether the employees in that service would be entitled to strike in relation to their service and wage conditions.
Molahlehi will lead the newly appointed committee whose other members are John Botha, a business representative, and John Mawbey, a labour representative. — I-Net Bridge