Optimising labour law for a just transition
| dc.contributor.author | Collier, Debbie | |
| dc.contributor.author | Godfrey, Shane | |
| dc.contributor.author | Oniga, Vincent | |
| dc.contributor.author | Osiki, Abigail | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-01-20T12:22:43Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-01-20T12:22:43Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2024 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This report examines the impact of climate change (focusing on the coal-based energy sector as a blueprint for other sectors) and the decent- work connection between climate change law and fundamental principles and rights at work, which are the foundations of labour law. The report considers relevant aspects of labour market regulation – ranging from the provisions of labour law and arrangements for sectoral collective bargaining, to active labour market policies and integrated regulation, such as social and labour plans – that can be optimised for a just transition. Challenges in planning and implementing just-transition processes occur within a regulatory space spanning a range of laws and legal fields and consequently cutting across various ministries and institutions in all spheres of government (national, provincial, and local) and at all levels of labour governance (workplace, sectoral, and national). In this regard, the report engages at a conceptual level with the emerging “JT regulatory framework” for facilitating just-transition processes. It constructs a typology of the following labour law functions and mechanisms that can support just-transition processes at the workplace, sectoral, and local government level: consultation and collective bargaining; restructuring and retrenchments; training and skills development; unemployment insurance and income support; health and safety (see also “Climate-proofing” labour law: Adapting to increased heat and extreme weather events); and emergency and disaster management. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10566/19830 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | University of the Western Cape | |
| dc.subject | just energy transition | |
| dc.subject | labour law | |
| dc.subject | climate change law | |
| dc.subject | decent work | |
| dc.subject | coal-based energy sector | |
| dc.title | Optimising labour law for a just transition | |
| dc.type | Article |