Professional statute overview
Enactment structure, operative effect and source provenance
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Purpose and legislative effect
“This section amends the definition of “employment law” in the principal Act.”
This section amends the definition of “employment law” in the principal Act. This section states that section 8 of the Act is substituted. This section replaces section 8 of the principal Act with new text. For sections 9 to 16, “day” means 24 hours counted from when the employee normally starts work; “daily” has the same meaning. Employers may not require or allow overtime except under an agreement, and overtime is capped at 3 hours a day and 10 hours a week unless a collective agreement changes the weekly limit within the stated limits.
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This section amends the definition of “employment law” in the principal Act.
Section 1
Employers must pay benefit fund deductions and required employer contributions to the fund within seven days, unless the fund rules require an even shorter period.
Section 6
A labour inspector may try to obtain a written undertaking from the employer to comply with subsection (1).
Section 13
This text inserts a new section after section 77 of the principal Act, titled “Powers of Labour Court.”
Section 19
This Act is named the Basic Conditions of Employment Amendment Act, 2002, and it starts when the President sets the commencement date by proclamation in the Gazette.
Section 24
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Source and current-law status
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Source record from www.parliament.gov.za · updated 24 Jun 2002
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