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Employment and Labour
Draft Labour Committee programme for third quarter 2014
25 Sep 2014
The Portfolio Committee on Labour met to consider its draft programme for the third quarter of 2014, and to review the executive summary report on its unannounced oversight visits to the Nyanga and Bellville satellite office and labour centre.
Some of the programme amendments turned out to be quite contentious. ...
Employment and Labour
National Minimum Wage: Agri-SA submission
17 Sep 2014
Agri-SA, a federation of agricultural organisations, representing a diverse grouping of individual farmers in the country, said in principle it accepted a national minimum wage but emphasised that the sectoral determination needed to be taken into consideration and it should be applied on different levels. The implementation of a national ...
Employment and Labour
National Minimum Wage: UWC, PLAAS and Progressive Professionals Forum
12 Sep 2014
National Minimum Wage submissions were made by the Social Law Project at the University of the Western Cape (UWC), the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) in conjunction with the UWC and the Progressive Professionals Forum (PPF).
The University of Western Cape argued for the introduction of a ...
Employment and Labour
National Minimum Wage: input by COSATU, NUMSA, SATAWU, Free Market Foundation & National Employers' Association of South Africa
5 Sep 2014
Employer associations and labour unions adopted opposing points of view when the Portfolio Committee on Labour hosted a workshop to discuss the implementation of a national minimum wage.
The Free Market Foundation (FMF) said it stood strongly for political and economic freedom and on how to ensure that the market ...
Employment and Labour
Department of Labour on International Labour Organisation conventions
30 Jul 2014
The meeting focused on two International Labour Organisation (ILO) conventions. These were the ratification of the 1986 instrument on the amendment to the constitution of the ILO, and the recommendations concerning the national floors of social protection.
Members were told the ILO operated on the same basis as the United ...
Employment and Labour
Committee Report on Department of Labour and its entities 2014 Budget
10 Jul 2014
The Portfolio Committee on Labour met to adopt the report of the recommendations made by the Committee on Budget Vote 18: Labour and on the Strategic Plans of the Department of Labour (2014 – 2019) and its Entities.
The Committee was generally satisfied with the plans of the Department of ...
Employment and Labour
Commission Conciliation, Mediation Arbitration, Nedlac, Productivity SA on their 2014 Strategic Plans
3 Jul 2014
The Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) presented its plans for 2014/15, and explained that its main role was to enrich the labour market. With the increase in the number of retrenchments it had also played a role in lay-off training and had established a job saving unit. Its ...
Employment and Labour
Department of Labour, Compensation Fund, Unemployment Insurance Fund on their 2014 Strategic Plan
2 Jul 2014
The Acting Director General of the Department of Labour enumerated the challenges confronting the DOL in the labour market which were unemployment and under employment, the changing nature of work, inequalities and unfair discrimination, domestic and cross border labour migration and inadequate instruments for constant performance, monitoring and evaluation of ...
Employment and Labour
Election of Chairperson
25 Jun 2014
Ms Lumka Yengeni (ANC) was elected unopposed as Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Labour. She urged Members to work together and set aside their political differences so as to prioritise serving South African citizens. She emphasised that Committee Members were allowed to have robust debates as long as they ...