Employment and Labour
Supported Employment Enterprises performance; COSATU Memorandum; Election of Chairperson
25 Oct 2017
The Supported Employment Enterprises (SEE) strategic objective is to provide work opportunities for persons with disabilities. A performance report on 2016/17 stated that production norms and standards were developed and training conducted with factory managers and instructors by end March 2017. However, performance norms and standards were not properly implemented ...
Employment and Labour
Department of Labour, CCMA, UIF, Nedlac, Productivity South Africa + Compensation Fund Quarter 1 performance
18 Oct 2017
The Department of Labour presented the salient issues pertaining to the Quarter 1 Performance Report to the Portfolio Committee on Labour. In the past financial year, only Western Cape had achieved the target and this year, Eastern Cape, Free State and Western Cape had achieved the target. There was no ...
Employment and Labour
DoL, Nedlac; Productivity SA; CCMA; Compensation Fund & UIF 2016/17 Annual Reports, with Auditor General input
13 Sep 2017
The Auditor General of South Africa (AGSA) briefed the Portfolio Committee on Labour on the audit outcomes of the Department of Labour (DoL) and its entities. In addition, The Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA), the Compensation Fund (CF), the Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF), the National Economic Development and ...
Employment and Labour
Compensation Fund Action Plan; UIF Labour Activation Programmes; Committee Reports
6 Sep 2017
The Department of Labour briefed the Portfolio Committee on developments at the Unemployment Insurance Fund, as well as the action plan of the Compensation Fund.
The Compensation Fund reported that the Department had concluded 83% of the goals set out, and had created a programme to clean out inefficiencies. It ...
Employment and Labour
Department of Labour response to Gauteng committee oversight visit report
16 Aug 2017
The Department of Labour with the Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) who is in charge of the Labour Activation Programme appeared before to the Portfolio Committee on Labour to respond to the oversigh visit to Gauteng report.
The Committee was not interested in the presentation by the UIF Commission until they ...
Employment and Labour
Department of Labour, Unemployment Insurance Fund; Productivity SA; and Nedlac Quarter 3 & 4 performance
28 Jun 2017
The Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF), Productivity South Africa (PSA) and the National Economic Development and Labour Council (NEDLAC) reported on their performances during the third and fourth quarters of the 2016/17 financial year. The meeting was a continuation of the Committee’s engagement with entities under the Department of Labour.
The ...
Employment and Labour
Department of Labour response to Committee Report on KZN oversight visit
31 May 2017
The Committee heard the Department of Labour’s response on the Status Reports regarding the oversight visit to KwaZulu-Natal.
According to the Executive Summary, a total of 13 employers were visited and all were found to be non-compliant with the provisions of the labour laws outlined in the presentation. All inspections ...
Employment and Labour
Accessing Workplaces for Unannounced Oversight Visits: legal opinion; DoL Update on Western Cape & KZN oversight recommendations; DoL Budget approval
17 May 2017
Apologies were received from the Director General and Deputy Director General inspection and enforcement services
The Department briefed the Committee on the Western Cape oversight visit on 22-24 March 2017. The Committee noted with concern, the absence of the Chief inspector of KwaZulu-Natal and the Chief Director Provincial Operations. The ...
Employment and Labour
Department of Labour; Supported Employment Enterprises; NEDLAC; Compensation Fund Annual Performance Plans
3 May 2017
The Portfolio Committee received presentations from the Department of Labour, the National Economic Development and Labour Council (NEDLAC), the Compensation Fund and the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) on their annual performance plans (APPs) for the 2017/18 financial year. The entities provided details of their objectives and the ...
Employment and Labour
National Minimum Wage: Committee Report on National Minimum Wage
8 Mar 2017
The issue of minimum wage was brought to life when the President Zuma first mentioned it in the 2014 State of the Nation Address. Following the address by the President, the Committee embarked on an information gathering exercise in order to ascertain what the nation’s views were. A total of ...