Labour Law In Namibia

Labour Law in Namibia is the first comprehensive and scholarly text to analyse labour law in the country, the Labour Act of 2007, and how it affects the common law principles of employment relations. Concise and extensively researched, it examines the Labour Act in detail in 16 chapters that include the employment relationship; duties of employers and employees; unfair dismissal and other disciplinary actions; the settlement of industrial disputes; and collective bargaining. Over 500 relevant cases are cited, including court rulings in other countries, and comparative references to the labour laws of other Commonwealth countries, notably South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia and the United Kingdom, making it a reference and comparative source book for common law countries in the SADC region and beyond. Written by an authority in the field of labour law, this is a unique reference guide for key players in labour relations, including teachers and students of law, legal researchers and practitioners, human resource and industrial relations practitioners, employers and employer's organisations, employees and trade unions, public servants and public policy advisors, and the academic community internationally. In clear and uncomplicated English, the book is accessible to professional and lay people. A comprehensive list of contents, tables of cases and statues, bibliography and index, assist the reader.

A thoroughly documented and well organized survey of labour-repressive and racially discriminatory legislation imposed on Namibians by the South African administration, in which the author's legal expertise is evident. Appendices reproduce the texts of two of the key legal instruments of the contract labour system, the Employment Bureau Regulations of 1972 and the Control and Treatment of Natives on Mines Regulation of 1925, as well as the old and revised (1972) terms of labour "contract" ("indenture" would be a more accurate description). The booklet sets the legislation in the context of a brief analysis of the economy, racial discrimination and deprivation in education, access to employment, wages and working and living conditions, as well as repression of trade union and political organization. An updated report was presented to a ILO seminar in Lusaka in 1981 and published in Nationhood Programme for Namibia. Report on The Seminar concerning discriminatory legislation in Namibia relating to labour matters (Geneva: ILO, 1983, 96 p. IL0/78/NAM 007). This report also contains a classified list of laws relating to the ILO study on discriminatory labour legislation in Namibia. (Eriksen/Moorsom 1989).

An explanatory glossary of basic Human Resources, Industrial Relations and Labour Law terms and concepts.

This guide aims at providing simplified version of the Labour Act No 11 of 2007 in order to allow the reader to familiarise with the new Labour Act.

Over the last fifty years in the United States, unions have been in deep decline, while income and wealth inequality have grown. In this timely work, editors Richard Bales and Charlotte Garden - with a roster of thirty-five leading labor scholars - analyze these trends and show how they are linked. Designed to appeal to those being introduced to the field as well as experts seeking new insights, this book demonstrates how federal labor law is failing today's workers and disempowering unions; how union jobs pay better than nonunion jobs and help to increase the wages of even nonunion workers; and how, when union jobs vanish, the wage premium also vanishes. At the same time, the book offers a range of solutions, from the radical, such as a complete overhaul of federal labor law, to the incremental, including reforms that could be undertaken by federal agencies on their own.