Companies, unions need to develop frameworks for dealing with impact of energy, water outages

Employers, their employees and trade unions need to develop framework agreements that set out how a company and its employees will respond to the impact of high levels of loadshedding, or even a grid outage, on the ability of the company and employees to perform their functions. This is the view of specialists from law firm Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr (CDH), which emphasised that the parties must identify gaps in the Labour Relations Act to address these challenges and then develop a framework agreement that sets out how the company and its employees will respond.