The Labour Management Partnerships Programme provides a platform for effective collaboration on initiatives and information sharing between labour unions, educators and school management.

The aim of the Programme is to ensure that labour unions, school management and educators take decisions collaboratively and together implement these decisions. This new approach recognises the importance of every educator’s voice in the decision-making process at school level.

The Programme is for the basic education sector, but the long-term focus is for all government departments in the country to adopt it. The Programme is ongoing. The purpose of its establishment is to have it become an integral and inherent part of the schooling system.

With the collaboration of all stakeholders (labour unions, school management and educators), the Labour Management Partnership Programme will play a vital role in improving learner performance, cultivating harmony in the workplace and restoring the integrity of the teaching profession in the country.

This Programme is based on the United States model, where it was found that quality partnerships at the school level has a positive impact on learner performance and aids in restoring the status of the teaching profession.

Before the formal launch of the Programme in February 2023, pilot Programmes were established in rural schools in KwaZulu-Natal and in the Western Cape, where positive results were recorded. Particularly in relation to the matric results of the underperforming schools that were identified, and improved learner behaviour was also evident.

Kindly direct any queries to the Director of the Labour Management Programme, Mr Jonavon Rustin. Contact details are below:

JRustin@elrc.org.za

083 633 5714

You can also contact Mr Keletso Molebaloa on:

(012) 663-7446 

keletsom@elrc.org.za