COLLOQUIUM ON EQUAL PAY
Hosted by the Department of Mercantile Law
Stellenbosch University
This event will examine equal pay for equal work or work of equal value from an economics and legal perspective. Speakers at the event will address the recent inclusion (through legislative amendments to the Employment Equity Act, 1998) of specific equal pay provisions in South African law, as well as provide an overview of applicable law, recent developments and general experience in this area of law in other jurisdictions.
All of this will be done in the context of an overview of disparities in pay that remain in the South African economy. The event will include presentations by Professor Rulof Burger (Department of Economics, Stellenbosch University), Professor Judy Fudge (Kent Law School, University of Kent) and Peter (PAK) le Roux (Honorary Professor, UNISA and Executive Consultant, Edward Nathan Sonnenbergs).
Date: Tuesday 22 September 2015
Time: 09h30 to 13h00 (to be followed by a light lunch)
Venue: Room 1028, Old Main Building
C/o Victoria & van Ryneveld streets
Stellenbosch
Please RSVP, by no later than Monday, 14 September 2015, to Christoph Garbers (cgarbers@sun.ac.za) or Andre Louw (alouw@sun.ac.za), or telephonically to Ms E. Ferrier on 021 808 3561 (including any special dietary or other requirements)
Please note that space is limited.
About our speakers:
Rulof Burger is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Stellenbosch University, specialising in labour economics. He holds the degrees BComm(Mathematics), B Comm (Hons)(Economics) (cum laude), M Com (Economics)(cum laude) – all from the University of Stellenbosch – as well as the degrees M Phil (Economics)(cum laude) from the University of Cambridge and D Phil (Economics) form the University of Oxford. Apart from numerous publications in the field, he has participated in contract research for the World Bank, the Department of Trade and Industry, the International Trade Commission, the Bureau for Economic Research and the Development Bank of Southern Africa.
Judy Fudge joined Kent Law School in 2013. She began her academic career at Osgoode Hall Law School in 1987, where she stayed until 2006, when she became Lansdowne Chair and Professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Victoria, Canada. Judy has a BA (Hons) in philosophy from McGill University, an MA in philosophy form York University (Canada), an LLB from Osgoode Hall Law School, and a DPhil in law from the University of Oxford. Judy was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2013 for her contribution to labour law scholarship. Judy’s books include Labour Before the Law: The Regulation of Workers’ Collective Action in Canada, 1900 to 1948 (with Eric Tucker); Temporary work, agencies, and unfree labour: Insecurity in the new world of work (with Kendra Strauss); Challenging the Legal Boundaries of Work Regulation (with Kamala Sankaran, and Shae McCrystal); Constitutional Labour Rights in Canada: Farm Workers and the Fraser Case (with Fay Faraday and Eric Tucker); Work on Trial: Canadian Labour Law Struggles (with Eric Tucker); and Precarious Work, Women, and the New Economy: The Challenge to Legal Norms (with Rosemary Owens).
Peter (PAK) le Roux currently is an executive consultant at Edward Nathan Sonnenbergs specialising in employment law. Prior to devoting himself fulltime to practice at the end of the 1990’s, Peter spent two decades in academia, as Professor of Law and later also as Head of the Department of Mercantile Law at the University of South Africa. Today he still holds an appointment as Honorary Professor of Law at UNISA. In his current capacity he represents and advises prominent mining houses and local and international corporate clients in matters pertaining to employment, pension funds and medical aid schemes and health and safety. He is the co-author of ‘Essential Labour Law’ and ‘The Law of Unfair Dismissal’ and co-edits ‘Contemporary Labour Law’. As one of South Africa’s leading labour lawyers, Peter also co-presents the annual Lexis Nexis ‘Current Labour Law’ seminar.
