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Legal Services
Description
- Legal advice and support services to farm workers
on labour issues, working and living conditions,
land tenure, evictions
- Specialised legal advice to advice offices and
unions
- Monitoring government's implementation of labour
legislation and policies
- Monitoring Labour court hearings and Commission
for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA)
hearings
Objectives
- To ensure that men and women farm workers have
access to the justice system
- To ensure men and women farm workers are adequately
represented in legal processes
Methods
- Case by case attention and advice - telephonically,
visits to farms and advice offices, meetings with groups
of workers if more than one person is involved.
- Facilitating access to litigation services for
farm workers, and organisations;
- In medium term to establish a law clinic to provide
litigation services ourselves
- Mediation between farm workers and farmers;
- Preparing worker committees for negotiations with
farmers
- Capture all cases on database that can be examined
to establish trends
- Independent documentation of labour court hearings
and CCMA hearing
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