Employees becoming aware of their rights

Athenkosi Mvane

29 April 2013

As Wednesday the 1^st of May marks Workers Day Labour analyst Loane Sharp says workers in South Africa are becoming increasingly aware of their rights in the work place. 

Sharp said workers are insisting on individual appraisals rather than collective bargaining, this is a generational change in attitude. 

Sharp said workers are increasingly knowledgeable leading to declining union numbers in the private sector.

“Trade unions for a long time were the agent of employee rights; employees are taking their grievances to management directly without the use of a union” Sharp added.