Employment relations

Employment Relations provides service excellence to our members in the field of employee relations, with respect to labour legislation and regulation.

Critical team members

• Motsamai Motlhamme: Head: Employment Relations
• Erissa Martin: Senior Policy Analyst: Employment Relations

Key activities

• Providing specialist expertise and advisory input on employment relations and labour market issues.
• Formulating and mandating industry policies and position papers on issues that will impact on the mining industry in particular and employers generally.
• Facilitating interaction between Human Resources and Employment Relations representatives of member companies, principally through a standing committee known as the Labour Policy Committee.
• Representing members and mining interests in various key forums, such as Nedlac.
• Playing an active and leading role within the structures of Business Unity South Africa (Busa) to ensure that mining interests are fully taken into account by that body.
• Ongoing interaction with the leadership of the unions in the mining sector.

External bodies

The Employment Relations team serves on a number of bodies to ensure that the interests of the mining industry are well represented in key policy formulating and advocacy forums, including:

• Business Unity South Africa (Busa)
• National Economic Development & Labour Council (Nedlac)

Gold wage agreements reached in 2015

Gold wage agreements reached in 2018

Coal wage agreement reached in 2015

Coal wage agreement reached in 2017