What are the consequences of agreement reached in respect of selection criteria to be used during a restructuring exercise?
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Selection criteria must either be agreed upon or fair and objective. Agreement is to be reached between the consulting parties (what s189(7) of the LRA means is that, where the consulting parties have agreed upon the selection criteria, the employer is obliged to use the agreed selection criteria to select employees to be dismissed, even if such criteria are not objective).
The consulting parties, for the purposes of s189(7) of the LRA, are the parties as set out in s189(1) of the LRA.
Within the hierarchy of the consulting parties provided in s189(1) of the LRA, once agreement has been reached with the true consulting party, no further agreements are required in respect of any of the other entities mentioned in such section.
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