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Bargaining Council for Restaurants, Catering and Allied Trades (BCRCAT)

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The BCRCAT is a legal and a voluntary forum in the private sector made up of one or more registered trade unions as well; on the other hand; one or more registered employer organizations. The primary purpose of the BCRCAT is to provide a structure where representative trade unions and employers in the sector can bargain over the terms and conditions of employment (an example is wages, hours of work, time off etc), matters of mutual interest and formulation of industrial policy. The council has jurisdiction over a defined sector and the precise scope of the council is set out in the constitution of the council.

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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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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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