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  • PAGE: 1 (Tuesday, 26 February 2019)

NATIONAL ASSEMBLY TUESDAY, 26 FEBRUARY 2019

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    The other one is to allow potential employees to opt out of the minimum wage. Now, the minimum wage has six million people, who at the moment are earning less than R20 an hour. Those are jobs in a home for low income people. With regard to the minimum wage, there is a process of exemption, but employers have to apply and show evidence. Now, you going to say, let's leave it to employees. What are you opening this up to? You are not going to be in government, so what the hell. For workers to be blackmailed into signing a form against not getting a job and to say they are ... [Inaudible.] ... wage, they not going to want it but they will be blackmailed into doing it. What a ridiculous and silly proposal is that? [Laughter.]
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    They say they are going to introduce compulsory balloting for strikes. Hey [19:54:26] agteros kom ook in die kraal [better late than never] but it's in the amendments to the Labour Relations Act. What is that?
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    Then I thought, well, let me look also on inclusivity. What are they proposing on black economic empowerment,
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