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Amended Labour Relations Act
13. Deduction of trade union subscriptions or levies
as amended by the
Amendment - Afrikaans Labour Relations Act 1998, Amendment - Labour Relations Act 1996, Amendment - Labour Relations Act 1998, Amendment - Labour Relations Act 2000, and Amendment - Labour Relations Act 2002
Chapter 3 : Collective Bargaining
Part A : Organisational Rights
13. Deduction of trade union subscriptions or levies
(1)
Any employee who is a member of a representative trade union
may authorise the employer in writing to deduct subscriptions or levies
payable to that trade union from the employee's wages.
(2) An
employer who receives an authorisation in terms of subsection (1) must
begin making the authorised deduction as soon as possible and must
remit the amount deducted to the representative trade union by not
later than the 15th day of the month first following the date each
deduction was made.
(3) An
employee may revoke an authorisation given in terms of subsection (1)
by giving the employer and the representative trade union one month's
written notice or, if the employee works in the public service, three
months' written notice.
(4) An
employer who receives a notice in terms of subsection (3) must continue
to make the authorised deduction until the notice period has expired
and then must stop making the deduction.
(5) With
each monthly remittance, the employer must give the representative
trade union-
(a) a list of
the names of every member from whose wages the employer has made the
deductions that are included in the remittance;
(b) details of
the amounts deducted and remitted and the period to which the
deductions relate; and
(c) a copy of every notice of revocation in terms of subsection (3).
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