RETAIL MEMBERS:
SAPMA has registered the "South African Retail Hardware and Paint Employers Association" (RHPEA) to ensure that those of its members who are operating in the Wholesale and Retail Coatings space are properly organized as a collective with a voice which is capable of representing industry to the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (DTI&C) as well as the Department of Employment and Labour (DE&L).
Work commenced both within the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition as well as the Department of Employment and Labour, to organise the Wholesale and Retail Sector in South Africa in two respects.
COLLECTIVE BARGAINING:
The first relates to the registration and facilitation of a Bargaining Council for the Retail Sector governing wages and conditions of employment. In the absence of a Bargaining Council for the Retail Sector, it has fallen on the Minister of Employment and Labour to have to impose a Sectoral Determination for wages and conditions of employment relating to employee is in the wholesale and retail sector.
The Minister has asked that the 2021 sectoral determination for Wholesale and Retail be the last time that he is called upon to intervene in collective-bargaining matters best-left to the social partnership of business and labour which should be operating in the sector.
One of the reasons that the Minister is so eager for the Social Partners to self-govern, is his indication that he wishes to finalise and implement an Employment Equity Profile for each industry and sector in South Africa.
He has realised that it is only between the employer and employees within the Wholesale and Retail Sector where agreement can be reached for an Equity profile for the sector in terms of what he requires to be mapped against the Economically Active Population (EAP) of South Africa.
In the absence of self-determination and governance, the sector of Wholesale and Retail and in-particular Retail Paint and Hardware will be dictated to, in-terms of the Employment Equity Profile and Targets which will be applied and enforced, both for employment as well as promotion purposes in companies.
For more information contact us at: admin@sapma.org.za
