About LEIA

Find out about the association

The Light Engineering Industries Association of SA was established in 1947 and are registered with the Department of Labour as an employers’ organisation and are dedicated to serve the interest of employers in the metals and engineering sector.

The Light Engineering Industries Association of SA is federated to the Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of Southern Africa (SEIFSA), who acts as an agent for the 18 registered employers’ organisations at a national level in the Metal and Engineering industry.

As a company in the Metal and Engineering industry companies are required in terms of the Labour Relations Act to be registered with the Metal and Engineering Industries Bargaining Council (MEIBC).

By joining the Light Engineering Industries Association of SA and becoming a party employer, you will effectively be given a “voice” as an employer in a very complex industry.

The Light Engineering Industries Association of SA represents the interests of member companies in all industry negotiations with the industry’s trade unions, not only on wages and other conditions of employment but also on the industry’s benefit funds which provide benefits to employees such as pensions, permanent disability and sick pay benefits.

Members of the Association meet quarterly including the Annual General Meeting and meet more often should the need arise. The Executive Committee of the Association is elected at the Annual General Meeting and is responsible for the management of the affairs of Light Engineering Industries Association of SA between General Meetings.

Members of the Executive Committee meet in between general meetings and among issues addressed regularly are:

Membership and finances
Labour matters including MEIBC issues and Industrial Relations matters
Proposed amendments to, and existing labour legislation and its impact on employment practices
Commercial, economic and political matters impacting on business
Industry wage negotiations with the Trade unions
Skills, training and keeping a watching brief on the activities of the Metal and Engineering and Related Services Seta (Merseta)

The LEIA’s Key Objectives:

regulate relations between members, employees and trade unions;
represent members interests in industry negotiations over wages;
promote, support and/ or oppose proposed legislation posing a threat to the interests of its members;
further the interests of the industry through public relations activities;
obtain, collate and distribute relevant information from the industry to its members;
promote the interests of membership; and
create awareness and access to all of the benefits of being affiliated to SEIFSA (seifsa.co.za).

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBERS

LEIA Chairperson:

Venessa Sanders
Macsteel Service Centres SA (Pty) Ltd

LEIA Vice – Chairperson:

Elias Monareng
MiTek Industries South Africa (Pty) Ltd