Labour Relations Act 1995 and post-1990 labour legislation

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	legislation gazette
Producer	Parliament of South Africa
Coverage	1992-2002
Works using it	6

Debates

Debate	Works
Black trade unions: growth, wage effects, Wiehahn and strategy	4
Agricultural policy, productivity, farm size and land reform	2
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control	2
Agrarian transition to capitalism and the fate of the African peasantry	1
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion	1
Did the apartheid economy fail? Growth, productivity, investment and the post-1970s crisis	1
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Budeli et al. (2008)	Labour Relations Act 66 of 1995 and Government Gazette 1692 (10 Feb 1995), Cheadle Task Team recommendations; 1993 interim and 1996 Constitutions; later labour statutes (BCEA 75 of 1997, EEA 55 of 1999 etc.)	1993-2002	Used to trace the post-1993 constitutional and statutory protection of freedom of association and union rights.
Crush and Jeeves (1993)	Basic Conditions of Employment Act, extension to farmworkers (May 1993) and COSATU–South African Agricultural Union draft farm labour legislation (August 1993)	1993	Cited as evidence of persistent farmer opposition to modernising industrial relations on farms.
Hirschsohn (1996)	Laboria Minute (1990) and 1995 Labour Relations Act, plus the Draft Negotiating Document in Bill Form and Explanatory Memorandum (January 1995)	1990-1995	Documents the shift to consensus-based policy formulation and the CCMA dispute resolution design.
Macun and Wood (2001)	Labour Relations Act no. 66 of 1995 and 1987 LRA amendments	1987, 1995	Used to show the 1990s legislative framework protective of unions, and the 1987 amendments as an attempted limit on union rights.
Macun and Wood (2001)	Public Service Labour Relations Act (1993) and public service organisation counts	1980s-1996	Establishes the timing of public service unionisation and the growth from one organisation to over 20 representing about 760 000 employees.
Roberts (2009)	Labour legislation 1992–2001 (BCEA 104 of 1992, ALA 147 of 1993, LRA 66 of 1995, Land Reform (Labour Tenants) Act 3 of 1996, ESTA 62 of 1997, BCEA 75 of 1997, OHSA 85 of 1993 etc.)	1992-2001	Establishes the legal framework whose cost and tenure effects farmers' views are tested against.
Vink and Kirsten (2001)	Labour legislation: Labour Relations Act, Basic Conditions of Employment Act, Land Reform (Labour Tenants) Act, Extension of Security of Tenure Act	1990s	Discussed as possibly raising farm labour costs and constraining employment, supported only by anecdotal evidence.