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Title: Understanding workplace social justice within the constitutional framework - analysis
Author
Affiliations : 1 High Court of South Africa
Source : SA Mercantile Law Journal, Volume 28 Number 3, Dec 2016, p. 544 - 562
This analysis seeks to contribute towards a practical understanding of the idea of social justice as it applies or ought to apply in our daily labour relations. Section 1 of the Labour Relations Act 66 of 1995 (‘the LRA’) declares its goal to promote social justice.
The stipulated goals of the LRA are indicative of the legislative intention to go further than merely stipulating rights which must be claimed, and enforced. ‘The professed aims disclose rather that the LRA is intended to be an instrument of social change aimed, in particular, at purging the labour dispensation of past inequalities and injustices, and extending democracy into the economic sector. It is in that spirit that the specific provisions of the LRA must be read’ (Grogan, Collective Labour Law 2 ed (Juta 2014) 16).
The focus of this analysis is the architectural framework created by the LRA to enable the advancement of social justice. Further, the question of how the notion of social justice manifests itself differently across the labour landscape is scrutinised. Moreover, the analysis illustrates examples of the successful management of workplace social justice.
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