This has already started happening in South Africa; Cosatu has called it jobs bloodbath. This causes the minimum wage to be R0 per hour and I keep repeating that. The system of the national minimum wage cannot in any way change the real value of labour and unfortunately what it is really doing is, it is sending the message to the manufacturers that it would be cheaper for them to import.
We have already seen employers just ignoring the minimum wage, and some of the employees who are fully cognisant to the fact that they could lose their jobs just keeping quite. We have only 16 00 inspectors in the whole of South Africa and the chances of an inspector calling in your businesses ... [Time expired.]