Wage calculator
Our wage calculator will help you with wage negotiations. The calculator will tell you how much a percentage increase is an amount of money. The calculator will help you understand the effect of inflation on the wage increase.
AGREED
Agreements Database: Find collective agreements, recognition agreements and global framework agreements.
MNC
Multinational Corporations Database: Find financial, operational and governance information of 91 South African MNCs.
AWARD
Actual Wage Rates Database: Find wages and conditions of employment across various industries.
Decent Standard of Living Measure
The median income of people who have all 21 socially perceived necessities is R7 911 per person, per month (September 2021). This is the amount associated with a decent standard of living per person in South Africa.
An introduction to wage bargaining
What you will learn: How to build a wage; approaches to dealing with inflation; simple formulas for calculating percentages and money amounts; communicating with workers during the process.
Inflation Monitor | March 2022
The Inflation Monitor publication offers a simplified version of what is happening with inflation monthly. Check it out, and also what it means for wage negotiations.
Trade union collective bargaining strategies
Learn:
- the indicators that will help you enter into bargaining processes as an informed role player
- the trade union bargaining strategies of the future.
Wage Bargaining Review | 2021
This report describes wage outcomes in 2021 found in collective agreements collected by the Labour Research Service. The report aims to inform strategy development in trade unions.
Six bargaining strategies for the present and future
Trade union bargaining strategies for 2021
Featured: minimum wage and settlement trends; the impact of Covid-19 and collective bargaining; the 2021 bargaining round; and bargaining for the future.
Labour Research Service – Over 30 Years Working for Workers
National Minimum Wage Campaign.
Know more about our history participating in the minimum wage debate in South Africa.
Negotiations
The equity bargaining process
Collective bargaining can promote equity in the workplace and address the entrenched misconceptions about the role of women workers. The trade union negotiator aims to extend the bargaining agenda to include the issues that reflect the intersection of the private area of family/home and the public area of work.
Learn how to approach the equity bargaining process.
A trade union guide to saving jobs
This guide is intended to help trade unionists think through a plan to save jobs at companies. The guide describes strategies for minimising the impact of retrenchments when they are unavoidable.
Decent Standard of Living (DSL) research
An introduction to the Decent Standard of Living threshold and the Decent Standard of Living Index
What you will learn:
- how we attempted to quantify in monetary terms a DSL threshold
- how we updated the DSL threshold amounts to 2018 amounts using a DSL Index (our modification of the CPI)
- the possible uses of the DSL study
- how to take the study forward.
There are more ways to live a decent life than just through money
Applying a DSL measure towards a coherent policy design
LRS model agreement
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