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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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Cosmetic Export Council of South Africa (CECOSA)

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The Cosmetic Export Council of South Africa (CECOSA) is a Section 21, non-profit organisation and has a Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) with the Department of Trade and Industry (the dti). CECOSA works in conjunction with the dti and South African Embassies/Economic Offices around the world. The prime objective is to create an exporting environment that will promote increased business for South African Companies and highlight our world-class cosmetic products to the global market.

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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 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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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 Fast Food, Restaurnt, Catering and Allied Trades (BCFFRCAT)

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The vision of the parties to the Council is to create labour stability within the industry, avoid shop floor negotiations and avoid strikes by having a National Council with a national collective agreement, agents to monitor and enforce the collective agreement, a forum for negotiations and conclusion of agreements on wages, benefits and other conditions of employment, as well as a speedy dispute resolution centre to deal with disputes, and an inquiry by an arbitrator which will be provided by the Council at no cost to parties in order to save employers and employees money and unnecessary delays.

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