The Promotion of Orderly Collective Bargaining and Effective Dispute Resolution, the Dynamic Labour Market and the Powers of the Labour Court (2)

Collective bargaining is one of the means by which employees can participate in decision-making in management of organisations, influencing, at least, pay and the terms of conditions of employment. It is an adversarial process, which involves negotiation between parties with conflicting interests seeking to achieve mutually acceptable compromises. For workers it is primarily a means of maintaining certain standards of distribution of work, of rewards and of stability of employment, whereas employers view it as a means of maintaining industrial peace