21 August - Labour
In today’s show, we spoke to Paul Cooley – Labour Law Expert and founder of Workplace Strategies. We were talking about Employee Retention. According to experts, key employee retention is critical to the long term health and success of your business. Managers readily agree that retaining your best employees ensures customer satisfaction, product sales, satisfied coworkers and reporting staff, effective succession planning and deeply imbedded organizational knowledge and learning. But the question is what encourages great employees to quit their jobs? Paul explained more on why Employee retention matters. It is reported that organizational issues such as training time and investment; lost knowledge; mourning, insecure co-workers and a costly candidate search aside, failing to retain a key employee is costly. Various estimates suggest that losing a middle manager costs an organization up to 100 percent of his salary. The loss of a senior executive is even more costly. For more information about Workplace Strategies visit www.workplacestrategies.co.za or email him to paul@workplacestrategies.co.za / 076 299 7807 or send a fax to 086 689 6815.
Lastly we heard from Crosby Booi – from SACCAWU. SACCAWU members at Woolworths are at an advanced stage in preparation to embark on a protected strike in terms of the Labour Relations Act. The union is accusing Woolworths of taking industrial relationship back to the dark days of Apartheid when workers had to embark on industrial relations to have their unions recognised. They claim that Woolworths for years now had embarked on an intense union-bashing campaign. Crosby will explain more about those allegations. Our attempt to get a representative from Woolworths failed instead they email us a press statement that says Woolworths has been very consistent in its approach to employee rights of freedom of association. Woolworths recognises the right of the union to organise its members and embark on a protected strike. The company will ensure that such action causes minimal disruption to customers and employees and Should the union demonstrate that they have sufficient representation, Woolworths will grant the union full recognition. If you want more information about SACCAWU contact their offices on (021) 424 3137/ 082 336 5703.
Lastly we heard from Crosby Booi – from SACCAWU. SACCAWU members at Woolworths are at an advanced stage in preparation to embark on a protected strike in terms of the Labour Relations Act. The union is accusing Woolworths of taking industrial relationship back to the dark days of Apartheid when workers had to embark on industrial relations to have their unions recognised. They claim that Woolworths for years now had embarked on an intense union-bashing campaign. Crosby will explain more about those allegations. Our attempt to get a representative from Woolworths failed instead they email us a press statement that says Woolworths has been very consistent in its approach to employee rights of freedom of association. Woolworths recognises the right of the union to organise its members and embark on a protected strike. The company will ensure that such action causes minimal disruption to customers and employees and Should the union demonstrate that they have sufficient representation, Woolworths will grant the union full recognition. If you want more information about SACCAWU contact their offices on (021) 424 3137/ 082 336 5703.
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