CCMA ANNUAL REPORT

Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration Annual Report 2022/23

The CCMA experienced a decline in the number of small-scale (Section 189) and large-scale (Section189A) retrenchment referrals. Although there is no tangible evidence of the real reasons for the decline, it appears that it may have been as a result of major retrenchments that were carried out in the 2020/21 financial year. The 2020/21 labour market challenges forced a considerable number of business closures and consequently, retrenchments. The decline is a positive sign that remaining businesses are beginning to show signs of stability and sustainability. However, the impact of job losses, no matter how minimal, remains a serious challenge for the labour market. The CCMA’s dedicated focus on its job saving strategy has consistently presented commendable job saving successes. To this end, the CCMA would not have achieved its job saving target without the commitment and dedication of job saving champions comprising of CCMA Section 189A Facilitators and Stakeholders. The highest number of job losses were recorded in the Mining, Retail and Building/Construction sectors. The table below indicates the selected high-profile Section 189A matters as can be gleaned from the spate of job losses across all sectors: TABLE 1: SELECTED HIGH-PROFILE SECTION 189A MATTERS SECTOR PARTIES

EMPLOYEES LIKELY TO BE RETRENCHED

TOTAL RETRENCHMENT

JOBS SAVED

Banking

South African Society of Bank Officials (SASBO) obo Members and Non-Unionised Employees and Bidvest Bank Ltd SATAWU - National Association of South Africa (NASA) – HOTELICGA - Wood Electrical Printing Union (WEPU) - Professional Transport and Allied Workers Union of South Africa (PTAWU) - NUMSA and Non-Unionised Employees and Bidvest Prestige (Pty) Ltd NUMSA - Solidarity and South African Commercial Catering and Allied Workers Union (SACCAWU) obo Members and Nampak Product (Pty) Ltd AMCU and National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) obo Members and Fraser Alexander (Pty) Ltd AMCU and NUM obo Members and Sibanye Gold (Pty) Ltd South African Commercial Catering and Allied Workers Union SACCAWU obo Members obo Members and Mass Discounters t/a Game and Dion Wired Stores

121

95

26

Contract cleaning

300

199

101

Metal

210

64

146

Mining

1 882

0

1 882

Mining

1 856

720

1 136

Retail

473

123

350

Retail

NUMSA - SACCAWU and Solidarity obo Members/ElliesElectronics (Pty) Limited

113

110

3

30