Clothing and Knitting Sector
“Clothing and knitting sector” or “the sector” mean the sector in which employers and employees are associated for the purpose of—
- Making, irrespective of the process or method used in such making, any one or more of the following classes of clothing, and includes the knitting of such articles as
- all classes of men’s and boys’ tweed and linen hats and caps;
- all classes of outer and undergarments for day wear, including shirts, collars, ties, socks, scarves, cloth belts and part of garments;
- pajamas and other nightwear;
- protective clothing;
- ladies’ or men’s gloves;
- stockings or socks;
- all classes of garments including quantity production tailoring made to the order of any Department in the national or provincial sphere of government; Transnet; the South African Airways; or Local government;
- tailored outer garments for the execution of special measure orders from dealers whose customers’ measurements are taken by or on behalf of such dealers; and
- conducting the knitting of clothing fabric where this is performed in conjunction with the manufacture of any one or more of the articles mentioned in (a) but does not include—
- retail dressing, retail millinery or the making of garments to the measurement of individual persons;
- any manufacturing activity in the clothing, knitting or ladies’ stockings industry for which a bargaining council is registered or deemed to have been registered in terms of the Labour Relations Act, and in respect of which that bargaining council has concluded a collective agreement covering essentially the same issues, and which is binding on such employers and employees.
