Recommendations to prevent unfair labour practice

Practices to ensure fair and equitable labour practice

Ethical behaviour when establishing job related standards and objectives. Employees must be informed about what is expected of them and the
standards against which they will be evaluated at the beginning of the performance cycle.

Fairness, equity and transparency when setting and applying performance

agreements standards.

Promoting personal accountability and ownership. Having a standard, well-documented procedure for the evaluation process
with well defined roles and responsibilities for employees and managers.

Practices to ensure fair and equitable labour practice (cont.)

Training on the performance management process and relevant
skills required to implement the process effectively.

Promotion of record keeping to document examples of effective and,

especially, ineffective employee performance.

Holding managers accountable for discussing performance issues

with employees and providing them with feedback in a timely manner.

Performance standards need to be reliable and standardised. Performance standards need to be fair and just (the measures of
performance must not be contaminated or deficient).