broking, employment contracts and disciplinary
warning letters. They also help management to
draw up IR documents, including documents
relating to grievance and disciplinary procedures,
working time arrangements, email and internet
policies and dealing with absenteeism in the
workplace. They also advise on the legitimacy of
medical certificates.
Executive
Profile
Disciplinary enquiries
The Division provides qualified and experienced
experts to chair and run in-company disciplinary
enquiries and appeals.
SEIFSA speaks for industry
The Division’s senior IR staff are active in the
formulation of employer bargaining strategies
and tactics. They also participate directly in
industry-wide negotiations with trade union
representatives. SEIFSA negotiates all terms and
conditions of the industry’s collective agreements
– from wage increases, employment conditions
and social security arrangements, through to
financial and administrative issues relating to
bargaining council operations.
Bridgette Mokoetle
IR & Legal
Services Executive and
Company Secretary
Main Agreement
SEIFSA negotiates the terms and conditions of
the industry’s Main Agreement in accordance
with mandates received from the various SEIFSA
member Associations.
IR Workshops
Bargaining Council
Matters
SEIFSA’s IR experts help to interpret and
implement
bargaining
council
collective
agreements relating to:
• Working conditions
• Short-time
• Retrenchments
• Use of labour brokers
• Pension and Provident Funds
• Disability issues
They prepare exemption applications
companies from bargaining council
for
agreements on:
• Wage Increases and
• Leave Enhancement Pay
Job Grading
SEIFSA’s grading specialists visit member
companies and grade employees’ jobs in
accordance with the bargaining council’s job
grading structures.
• A - Z of the Main Agreement workshop
• Effective Industrial Relations on the Shop
floor
• Employment Contracts and the Law -
Keep it simple
• Fair and effective discipline – from
warnings to chairing watertight dismissals
• Handling Conflict and Common Problems
at the Workplace
• Managing Absenteeism and Sick Leave
at the workplace
• Negotiating for Results
• The Future of Industry
Bargaining Seminar
• Retrenchments, short-time and lay-offs
• Managing load shedding
• Grading done correctly
• The Main Agreement vs the BCEA
• Managing leave: Sick leave, annual
leave, family responsibility leave, shop
steward leave, study leave and even
unauthorised leave.
Collective
Bridgette Mokoetle joined SEIFSA in
April 2014 as a Legal Executive and
Company Secretary and later assumed
responsibility for Industrial Relations. She has
previously worked as Corporate Services
Manager at the Construction Education
and Training Authority, HR Manager: Legal
Compliance at Fraser Alexander Bulk Mech
and as an Associate and a Senior Associate
at Brink Cohen Le Roux Inc.
Ms Mokoetle holds an LLB degree from the
University Johannesburg and has finished her
course work for an LLM at the University of
South Africa
FOR MORE INFORMATION
ON THE IR & LEGAL SERVICES
DIVISION
Visit the SEIFSA website on www.seifsa.
co.za or call Ms. Mokoetle (011) 298-9400
or [email protected]
SEIFSA AT 75 - SPECIAL COMMEMORATIVE MAGAZINE
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