The Mega-Project as a Labour Relations Ecosystem: Why Standard Frameworks Are Not Enough
When a power station is under construction on a national deadline, when thousands of workers from dozens of contractors share a single site, and when a single unresolved dispute has the potential to cascade across an entire project — the standard assumptions of South African labour law are tested in ways that the drafters of the framework could not fully anticipate. This article examines what large infrastructure projects reveal about the limits of conventional dispute resolution, and what practitioners, employers and institutional clients need to understand before a dispute on a complex project reaches the point of formal proceedings.
