Unless the context indicates otherwise, any expression used in this determination and which is defined in the Basic Conditions of Employment Act, 1997, has the same meaning as in that Act, further, unless inconsistent with the context-
means employees who are charged by the employer with the performance of work entailing responsibility for taking decisions of an administrative nature in the conduct of any activity;
means the period of 12 months employment with the same employer.
includes a collective agreement.
means the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration established in terms of section 112 of the Labour Relations Act, 1995;
means a person employed to clean office, school, business, factory, residential or any other premises, or any airplanes, trucks, cars, buses, trains or any other vehicle requiring to be so cleaned on a contractual basis and/or to clean the furniture and any other object(s) in such premises and vehicles, and/or to perform any work incidental thereto;
means the sector in which employers and employees are associated on a fixed-term or fixed-project contract for the purpose of cleaning or washing by hand or machine, of furniture, windows, carpets, doors, floors, tools, machinery, under supervision at industrial and commercial premises, buildings, and flats that are let commercially or any airplanes, trucks, cars, buses, trains or any other vehicle requiring to be so cleaned;
means a period of 24 hours measured from the time when the employee normally commences work.
means work which is required to be done without delay owing to circumstances for which the employer could not reasonably have been expected to make provision and which cannot be performed by employees during their ordinary hours of work.
means any person excluding an independent contractor, who works for another person for more than 24 hours per month in the Contract Cleaning Sector and who receives, or is entitled to receive, any remuneration;
means any premises or part thereof, on or in connection with which one or more employees are employed in the Contract Cleaning Sector;
means an employee whose wage is calculated on an hourly basis notwithstanding the frequency of the payment thereof;
means inability to work owing to any sickness or injury other than sickness or injury caused by an employee’s own misconduct: Provided that any such inability to work, caused by an accident or scheduled disease for which compensation is payable under the Compensation for Occupational Injuries and Diseases Act, 1993, shall only be regarded as incapacity during any period in respect of which no disablement payment is payable in terms of that Act.
includes the common law;
means an employee who is charged by his/her employer with the overall supervision over, responsibility for, and direction of the activities of and establishment and the employees engaged therein;
means-
a) a person entitled to practice as a medical practitioner in terms of section 17 of the Medical, Dental and Supplementary Health Service Professions Act, 1974 (Act No 50 of 1974); or
b) a traditional healer;
means a person registered or enrolled to practice as a midwife in terms of section 16 of the Nursing Act, 1978 (Act No. 50 of 1978);
means a calendar month.
means work performed after 18:00 and before 06:00 the next day;
means the hours of work prescribed in clause 8 but if by agreement between an employer and the employee the Latter works a lesser number of ordinary hours, it means such shorter hours;
means the time that an employee works during a day or a week in excess of ordinary hours of work;
means all public holidays declared as such in terms of the Public Holidays Act, 1994
means any payment in money or in kind, or both in money and in kind, made or owing to any person in return for that person working for any other person, including the State, and "remunerate" has a corresponding meaning;
means an employee who is engaged in shift work in a workplace in which two or three consecutive shifts per day are worked on not more than six day per week;
means a temporary reduction in the number of ordinary hours of work owing to slackness of trade, shortage of raw materials, vagaries of the weather, a breakdown of plant or machinery or buildings that are unfit for use or is in danger of becoming unfit for use.
means the Basic Conditions of Employment Act ,1997;
means an industry or a service or a part of an industry or a service;
means that amount of money payable to an employee in terms of clause 3 read with clause 11 in respect of his/her ordinary hours of work: Provided that if an employer regularly pays an employee in respect of such ordinary hours of work an amount higher than that prescribed in clause 3, it means such higher amount, and "weekly wage" has a corresponding meaning;
see "wage";
in relation to an employee, means the period of seven days within which the working week of that employee ordinarily falls;
means any place where employees work.