Chapter Ten: Monitoring, Enforcement and Legal proceedings
Part A: Monitoring and Enforcement
68. Securing an undertaking

 

 

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1)       A labour inspector who has reasonable grounds to believe that an employer has not complied with any provision of this Act must endeavour to secure a written undertaking by the employer to comply with the provision.

 

1A)    A labour inspector may endeavour to secure a written undertaking by the employer to comply with subsection (1) either by -

a)       meeting with the employer or a representative of the employer; or

b)       serving a document, in the prescribed form, on the employer.

 

2)       In endeavouring to secure the undertaking, the labour inspector--

a)       may seek to obtain agreement between the employer and employee as to any amount owed to the employee in terms of this Act;

b)       may arrange for payment to an employee of any amount paid as a result of an undertaking;

c)       may, at the written request of an employee, receive payment on behalf of the employee; and

d)       must provide a receipt for any payment received in terms of paragraph (c).