Eswatini Labour Insight

SWAZILAND (ratification: 1978) The Government provided the following written infor-mation. There has been remarkable progress in dealing with the issues raised by the ILO in the 2015 report of the Com-mittee of Experts. The progress on the issues is as set out below. Concerning the amendment of the Industrial Rela-tions Act to allow for registration of federations, that amendment has been effected through the Industrial Rela-tions (Amendment) Act No. 11 of 2014 and is now law. Following the enactment of the amendment, the Trade Union Congress of Swaziland (TUCOSWA), the Federa-tion of Swaziland Employers and Chamber of Commerce (FSE–CC), and the Federation of the Swaziland Business Community (FESBC) are now duly registered. The usher-ing in of the amendment has created an interest from other labour market formations to form federations, hence some requested to attend the 104th Session of the Conference as observers. The Government is fully committed to ensur-ing the full operation...

Why trade unions need to get serious about new media in 2017 Aaron Bastani 22 November 2016 The far right funded new media networks and took the highest office in the world. It's time for the left to learn from that. The events of the last year mean that many of the core assumptions around politics – particularly who can win and how – are in need of thorough re-examination. That doesn’t just apply to goings-on in Britain and the United States – with Brexit and the election of Donald Trump – but also the failed coup in Turkey against Erdogan and the ruling AKP, as well as the impeachment of Dilma Roussef in Brazil. Each of those events personifies, as I’ve said elsewhere, how 2016 represents the political overhead of an economic crisis which started in 2007. The new volatility of Sanders, Farage, Syriza, Trump, Corbyn and Podemos, are, in different ways, the electoral expression of ever more people being open to radical solutions. And yet that economic crisis, which h...

1.    THE HISTRORY OF SWAZI LABOUR LAW – BY NATHI GUMEDE It is difficult to proceed with issues of individual and collective Swazi Labour law without outlining the key events in the history of the Swazi Labour Movement. Though by no means comprehensive and very accurate, here are some events that have shaped Swazi Labour Law. 1937 – Wages Determining Proclamation 1947 – Trade Union Dispute Proclamation No 31 of 1942 1960 – F.C. Catchpole Commission on Labour Relations Socialization reports absence of trade unions 1962 – Pulp and Timber Worker’s Union established with Pan-Africanist influence as the first trade union; the union called the first strike the same year 1963 - Second Strike of the Pulp and Timber Worker’s Union spread into a National Strike (66,000 man hours). The National strike led to the formation of the Swaziland Democratic party and the Swaziland Progressive Party. The strike was thwarted by the First Battalion of Gordon Highlands from Ken...