GIBS Employee Relationship Management Conference

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GIBS Employee Relationship Management Conference – impact of evolving employment relations landscape & alternatives to majoritarianism 16 February 2016

TIME

AGENDA

SPEAKERS

7.15 am – 8.20 am

Registration and arrival refreshments

8.20 am – 8.30 am

Welcome and opening remarks by Conference Chairman

Prof Albert Wöcke GIBS Faculty 8.30 am – 9.05 am

Workplace relations: Pathologies and prospects

Charles Nupen, Executive Chairman StratAlign 9.05 am – 9.40 am

Organisational rights - South African framework, insights and learnings

Arnause Rabatome Mohlala, Convening Senior Commissioner : Ekurhuleni, Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) 9.40 am – 10.10 am

Morning refreshments

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10.10 am – 10.45 am

A case study of Sun International's approach and considerations taken into account for a lock out in September 2015

Verna Robson Group Executive: Human Resources Sun International

10.45 am – 11.20 am

Through the LRA lenses – managing majority and minority Unions within the statutory framework and reflections on the emerging case law

Rod Harper, Head of Employment Law, Benefits & Industrial Relations, Cowan-Harper Attorneys Emerging shifts in collective bargaining

Session Chairman

Rod Harper, Head of Employment Law, Benefits & Industrial Relations, Cowan-Harper Attorneys Speaker panellists 11.20 am – 11.35 am

In search of an alternative collective bargaining model to the one-sizefits all

Lucio Trentini, Operations Director SEIFSA (Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of Southern Africa)

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11.35 am – 11.50 am

Possible legislative amendments on collective bargaining and workplace forums in order to address labour relations stability.

Tanya Cohen, Lead Technical Advisor for Business on the NEDLAC labour relations stability and wage inequality task teams 11.50 am – 12.05 pm

The changing trade union landscape: impact, challenges and remedies  Intersection of trade unions’ constitutions and the breakdown of sectoral delineations established by former trade union federations  Exercise of organisational rights and employer operations  Challenges and remedies

12.05 pm – 12.35 pm

Questions and answers with speaker panellists

12.35 pm – 1.35 pm

Networking Lunch

1.35 pm – 2.10 pm

SABPP HR Management Standard: Employment Relations Management Element

Sivaan Marie, Human Capital and Transformation Director Bidvest Foodservice

Marius Meyer, Chief Executive Officer SABPP (SA Board For People Practices) 2.10 pm – 3.05 pm

Strategic dialogue Future and the way forward for trade unionists

Session Chairman

Gavin Hartford, Industrial sociologist, Advisor, Mediator, Facilitator and Strategy Specialist Stakeholder Solutions

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Speaker panellists:

Helen Diatile, National Chairperson for Education, NUM (National Union of Mineworkers)

Hermann Nieuwoudt, Head of Employment and Labour Norton Rose Fulbright

Gideon du Plessis, General Secretary, Solidarity 3.05 pm – 3.15 pm

Conclusion and closing remarks from Chairman

Prof Albert Wöcke GIBS Faculty 3.15 pm – 3.45 pm

Networking session with refreshments

Ends (updated 10 Feb 2016)

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