The simple answer is: no, it is not. This issue was recently decided by the Constitutional Court in NUMSA. The facts were the following. NUMSA had adopted a constitution that, inter alia, set out its scope of membership. Initially, the scope of membership was largely made up of the metal and related industries.Read More

The World Health Organisation declared COVID-19 as a pandemic on 11 March 2020. A pandemic is a disease that has spread in multiple countries around the world at the same time. Since its outbreak, COVID-19 has spread in most countries including South Africa, thereby forcing governments to put stringent measures in place to curb the...Read More