Your Rights, Your Education!

The Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) and SABC Education radio campaign, Make Your Rights Work for You, continues live on air on eleven community radio stations. 

The focus of the campaign is to promote awareness of workplace rights and how best to apply them.  The CCMA’s social justice mandate of promoting dignity of all workers and access to information and services synergises well with SABC Education’s mandate of ensuring continued public engagement on civic, democracy and human rights matters so that citizens can make informed decisions on issues that affect their wellbeing.

Surekha Singh, commissioning editor at SABC Education says, “Feedback from listeners so far is that the live interviews with commissioners have been very well received and they have generated a lot of interest from workers who are not always aware of their rights to join a trade union, what to do if they lose their jobs or experience discrimination.  The public information and social development unit at SABC Education  sees the campaign as an opportunity to promote public engagement on workplace rights, through live weekly interviews with CCMA Commissioners and the chance for listeners to phone in with their queries”.

Future topics include ‘What are my rights when I am retrenched’, ‘Rights of farm and domestic workers’ and ‘Working on the mines’. Special focal areas include dealing with sexual harassment in the workplace and rights as a working parent.

CCMA Director Nerine Kahn says, “Our experience has shown the value of ensuring that employees and employers understand their rights and responsibilities in the workplace. This initiative is a key element of our programme to build knowledge and understanding in line with our objective of transforming workplace relations”.

The stations and time slots are:

Phalaphala FM Fridays 20h30 – 21h00

Thobela FM Thursdays 21h30 – 22h00

Munghana Lonene FM Wednesdays 21h05 – 22h00

Ligwalagwala FM Tuesdays 21h30 – 22h00

Ukhozi FM Sundays 14h30 – 15h00

Umhlobo Wenene FM Mondays 21h05 – 21h30

Tru FM Wednesdays 18h30 – 19h00

Lesedi FM Sundays 21h05 – 21h30

XK FM Saturdays 11h10 – 11h40

Motsweding FM Wednesdays 21h20 – 21h40

Ikwekwezi FM Thursdays 21h30 – 22h00

RSG Sundays 15h05 – 15h30