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Employment and Labour
Labour Relations Amendment Bill: deliberations; Auditor-General briefing on Labour portfolio
20 Apr 2018
The Portfolio Committee on Labour continued with deliberations on Labour Bills. The Auditor-General South Africa also presented a preliminary report on the audit areas of the Department and its entities.
The Auditor-General South Africa (AGSA) provided the Committee with insights on the audit areas of the Department and entities in ...
Employment and Labour
Labour Bills: deliberations
19 Apr 2018
The Portfolio Committee on Labour met for further deliberations on the Department’s responses to comments on the Labour Bills. The National Minimum Wage (NMW) Bill as well as the Basic Conditions of Employment (BCEA) Bill were discussed. Highlights of the discussions were as follows:
On the NMW Bill, The Retail ...
Employment and Labour
Labour Bills: Department of Labour response to submissions & way forward
18 Apr 2018
The Committee met to process and discuss the National Minimum Wage Bill responses submitted by the Department of Labour (DoL) in response to comments from affected stakeholders.
The Committee agreed with the Department of Labour on most of its responses to employer organisations which had submitted comments on particular ...
Employment and Labour
Labour Bills: Department response to submissions
28 Mar 2018
The Committee’s Content Advisor presented a summary of the oral submissions that had been made during the public hearings and comments on the Minimum Wage Bill, the Labour Relations Bill and the Basic Conditions of Employment Amendment Bill, focusing on specific clauses in the amendment bills.
The Department of Labour ...
Employment and Labour
Labour Bills: Way-forward on the processing of submissions
27 Mar 2018
The Portfolio Committee on Labour, meeting for further public hearings on the Labour Bills, was told that the Consumer Goods Council of South Africa (CGCSA) supported the introduction of a national minimum wage, and that minimum wage setting should be removed from Sectoral Determinations. The repeal of Chapters 8 and ...
Employment and Labour
Labour Bills: summary of submissions
20 Mar 2018
The Portfolio Committee on Labour met, with Department officials in attendance, to receive a briefing by the Committee Content Adviser on the summaries of the submissions made on the three Labour bills before the Committee.
Since most of the submissions was submitted late on Friday, the Content Adviser was only able to ...
Employment and Labour
Committee Report on Department of Labour Quarter 2 performance; Labour Bills public hearings planning
14 Mar 2018
The Portfolio Committee on Labour met to consider the Draft Committee Report on the Quarter 2 performance of the Department of Labour (DoL); and to discuss the way forward in terms of the Labour Bills before the Committee.
The draft report had just two recommendations that talked to the fact ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Assets on immovable asset register: Department briefing with Deputy Minister
13 Mar 2018
The Department of Public Works (DPW), accompanied by the Deputy Minister, briefed the Committee on the status of different categories of assets on the Immovable Asset Register (IAR) and foreign assets. The Committee heard about the types of assets comprising the DPW property portfolio (IAR), the total value of assets ...
Employment and Labour
Compensation Fund Action Plan: Department of Labour briefing
21 Feb 2018
The Compensation Fund -- an entity of the Department of Labour – reported on progress on its action plan to restore its image, which had suffered from adverse media publicity and negative reaction from stakeholders due to service delivery issues.
The objectives of the action plan were anchored on the ...
Public Works and Infrastructure
Department of Public Works regional workshops resuscitation
20 Feb 2018
The Committee met to consider the proposed resuscitation of regional workshops and relevant interventions, and was briefed by the Department of Public Works (DPW).
The DPW said the resuscitation of regional workshops would help to address the challenges of dissatisfied clients, unemployment, poor service delivery and the scarcity of skills. ...