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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: SAFTU, BUSA, NEASA, AgriSA submissions
17 Apr 2018
The National Employers' Association of South Africa (NEASA) was fundamentally opposed to extending bargaining council collective agreements and making them binding on non-parties. The cost of labour as a percentage of turnover for big business could be 5% or lower. For a small business it could be as high as ...
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: public hearings day 2
23 Mar 2018
The Portfolio Committee on Labour met for further public hearings on Labour Bills: National Minimum Wage (NMW) Bill, Basic Conditions of Employment Amendment Bill, Labour Relations Amendment Bill and Labour Laws Amendment Bill The National Minimum Wage Research Initiative, Women on Farms Project, Public Service Co-ordinating Bargaining Council, and the ...
Employment and Labour
Labour Bills: public hearings & Department response to submission
22 Mar 2018
The Portfolio Committee on Labour sat to hear submissions on the National Minimum Wage Bill (NMWB), the Basic Conditions of Employment Amendment (BCEA) Bill and the Labour Relations Act (LRA) Amendment Bill. Concerns were raised at the start of the meeting about the rushed nature of the hearings given the ...
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 ...
Trade, Industry and Competition
Listeriosis & Ford Kuga: National Consumer Commission & NCRS progress report
9 Mar 2018
The Portfolio Committee on Trade and Industry met with the National Regulator for Compulsory Specifications (NRCS) and the National Consumer Commission (NCC). The NRCS presented a status report on Letters of Approval and the roll-out of risk-based management (RBM) system. It also gave an update on the Listeria outbreak and ...