Temporary Employment Services time limit to be reduced
We closed off with Gavin Stansfield - Director of Employment Law at Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr
Inc. We were talking about the proposed time limitation on Temporary Employment
Services being reduced from six months to three months. It appears that one of
the great controversies surrounding the forthcoming amendments to the Labour
Relations Act, No 66 of 1995 (LRA) is the continued right of existence of
Temporary Employment Services (TES), given that TES employees are often
subjected to abusive labour practices, and require additional statutory
protection. The Portfolio Committee on Labour in the National
Assembly has proposed that clause 44 of the 2012 Amendment Bill (proposed
amendments) should allow for only three months, rather than six months as a
maximum period. This means that if a worker performs work for a TES client in
excess of three months the worker shall be deemed to be the employee of the client and will be entitled to the
same wage and benefits as the client’s other permanent employees, unless a justifiable
reason for different treatment exists. The proposed changes to the Bill will
only be voted on in Parliament after the winter recess.
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