18

Independent employerAssociations

1223

Member Companies

167 000

Employees

SEIFSA operates on the following levels:

Industry level

At industry level, SEIFSA negotiates collective agreements covering wages and conditions of employment with the trade unions. The Federation also represents employers on the boards of the Engineering Industries Pension Fund, the Metal Industries Provident Fund, the Metal and Engineering Industries Permanent Disability Scheme, the Metal and Engineering Industries Bargaining Council Sick Pay Fund, the Metal and Engineering Industries Bargaining Council and the Manufacturing, Engineering and Related Services Seta (merSETA).

Individual company level

SEIFSA provides a comprehensive range of services and products of direct benefit to Associations and their members. SEIFSA’s range of services and products includes advice, assistance, consultancy (covering labour legislation, dispute resolution, employment conditions, health and safety, broad-based black economic empowerment, contract price adjustment and skills development), publications, training courses, seminars and conferences.

As the recognised voice of the M&E industry, SEIFSA’s management team represents employer associations on a number of organisations that are critical to the success of the industry as a whole including:

  • Business Unity South Africa (Busa)
  •  Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and  Arbitration (CCMA)
  • Electricity Intensive Users Forum
  • Eskom Task Group on Electricity
  • Manufacturing, Engineering and Related Services Seta (merSETA)
  • Metal and Engineering Industries Bargaining Council (MEIBC)
  • Metal Industries Benefit Funds Administrators (Mibfa)
  • National Economic, Development and Labour Council (Nedlac)
  • Technical Sectoral Liaison Committee on Trade Agreements of Nedlac
  • South African Institute of Iron and Steel Downstream
  • Development Committee
  • Nedlac’s Fund for Research into Industrial
  • Development, Growth and Equity Committee
  • Institute of Safety Management

SEIFSA, through its membership of these bodies, has over the years positively influenced legislation and policy affecting labour relations, skills development as well as economic and trade matters.