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Bargaining Council for the Food Retail, Restaurant, Catering & Allied Trades (BCFOOD)

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The primary function of the Bargaining Council for the Food Retail, Restaurant, Catering & Allied Trades is to regulate relations between Management and Labour and to settle disputes between parties. We are registered by the Department of Labour in terms of section 29 of the LRA and are accredited by the CCMA for Arbitrations and Conciliations. In terms of section 28 parties to the council conclude collective agreements and the council enforces the agreement to prevent and resolve labour disputes.
At the request of the council ‘designated agents’ are appointed by the Minister to help enforce our collective agreement. Our agreement is extended to non-parties.

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Built Environment Professions Export Council (BEPEC)

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As one of South Africa’s 18 export councils, the Built Environment Professions Export Council (BEPEC) assists South African engineering, architects, and quantity surveying firms, as well as contractors to export their services into new markets in Africa and beyond.

As the prime export council in South Africa that focuses on built-environmental professions, we operate in a partnership with the South African Department of Trade and Industry (dti). As a result, our mandate is in line with their objectives: diversifying South Africa’s export sector by helping built-environment companies identify and access new markets. Additionally, we are also working towards transforming South Africans exports by helping smaller and black-owned businesses become export ready.

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Building Industry Bargaining Council (Cape of Good Hope) (BIBC)

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The BIBC is responsible for regulating and monitoring employement conditions in the building industry in the Cape PeninsulBoland, Malmesbury and Overstrand areas. By law, all building and building related contractors (i.e. painters, plumbers, etc.) must pay their employees the minimum rates as prescribed and contribute to certain minimum employee benefits. These employment conditions are gazetted in the Collective Agreement by the minister of Labour and as such becomes law.

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Bargaining Council for the Furniture Manufacturing Industry of the South Western Districts (BCFMI)

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The Bargaining Council for the Furniture Manufacturing Industry of the South Western Districts (BCFMI) is a statutory body created under the Labour Relations Act (LRA) 66 of 1995 to provide for the co-regulation of stable and productive employment relations in the furniture manufactuting industry in the South Western districts.

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Bargaining Council for the Meat Trade Gauteng (BCMT)

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The main functions are: [a]To offer a forum to negotiate a collective agreement between employers and employees [b] To resolve labour disputes in the Meat Trade [c] To administer social benefit funds for employees e.g. retirement, medical aid and funeral funds [d] To regulate the collective agreement as negotiated between the parties to the Bargaining Council

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