No.,S 2015 LABOUR AMENDMENT (b) shalL where the employer offers to pay the rmmmum retrenchment package by instalments over a period of time, consider whether the offer is a reasonable one, and may propose an alternative payment schedule; (c) 6 may inquire from the employer whether he or she has considered, or may wish to consider, specifically orin generaL the alternatives to termination of e.mployment provided for in section 12IX'. Amendment of section 120 of Cap. 28:01 Section l2D ("Special measures to avoid retrenchment") of the principal Act amended~ (a) (b) in subsection ( 1) by thedeletionof"ofany groupoffiveormoreemployees in a six-month period" and the substitution of ''of any employees": in :-,ubsection (2) by the deletion of "or wi(h any workers committee . works council or employment council wrlich represents the employees'' and the substitution of "or with any workers committee or works council which represents the employees'': hy the insertion after subsection (2) of the following subsections~ ''(2a) If no agreement is reached in terms of .,;ubsect.ion (2 ), an employer shall give written notice of his or her proposed measures to avoid retrenchment and of the opposing proposals, if any, to~ (a) the employment council established for the undertaking or industry: or the Retrenchment Board, if there is no employment council for the undertaking concerned: whereupon the employment council or the Retrenchment Board, as the case may he, may, no later than thirty clays after it has received the employer's notice~ (h) (c) accept or reject the employer's proposed measures to avoid retrenchment:. or (d) refer back the matter to the employer for reconsideration with the employees, workers committee or works council concerned. together it its own suggestions for improving the original proposals or reconciling them with any opposing proposals: (2b) If--- an employer's proposed measures to avoid retrenchment are rejected in terms of subsection (2a)(c), then, within thirty days of such rejection; or \b) no agreement on alternative measures to avoicl retrenchment is reached with an employer's em1Jloyee~ or Yvith the appropriate workers committee or wmks counci.l in accordance with subsection (2a)(d), then, no later than the thirtieth day after the date when the proposed measures were referred back fur reconsideration: an employer may give \Vritten notice of his or !wr proposed Of revised) nieasure<;, to avoid retrenchment lo-- (c the Retrencllmem BmmL where written notice of hi\ or made in terms 122 or subsection <2a)( or