 Model Contract for use by Temporary Employment Services

Limited Duration Contract of Employment

[In terms of clause 35 of the Main Agreement]

[The employer] ....................................................................................................... agrees to engage the services of .................................................................................. [the employee] and the employee hereby agrees to accept service with the employer on the following terms and conditions:

(a) The contract of employment shall be for a maximum period of .............. months/weeks from date of employment, i.e. from

.......................................... to .......................................... or completion of the specific work detailed hereunder: .........................................................................................................................................................................

(b) On completion of the contract as detailed in (a) above, this contract shall automatically terminate. Such termination shall not be construed as being retrenchment but shall be completion of the contract. No enquiry is required when this contract terminates through effluxion of time.

(c) The remaining conditions of employment, not expressly detailed above, shall be the existing employer policy, rules and regulations and the general conditions of employment as contained in the Main Agreement and benefit fund arrangements for the Iron, Steel, Engineering and Metallurgical Industry subject to the limitation set out in (b) above.

(d) Where employment continues after completion of this contract in terms of (a) above, this contract shall become null and void and the provisions of the Main Agreement shall apply.

(e) Subject to amendment of the general conditions of employment as set out in (c) above, the engagement conditions shall be:

Occupation ......................................................................................................................... Rate of pay .........................................................................................................................

The employee acknowledges that he/she understands the contents of this contract and signifies acceptance thereof:

Signed at....................................................................................................on ......................................................

* Note

It is recommended that management incorporates a clause stating that ‘The Employee accepts and understands that the entering into of this contract will not give rise to any expectation, on the part of the Employee, of continued employment with the Company’.