Tag: Minimum Wage
Rapid increase of the national minimum wage is throttling agricultural sector growth
Agri SA will be making a submission to Parliament which demonstrates the negative impact of the national minimum wage on the growth and sustainability of the agricultural sector. Unless the increases...
South Africa’s minimum wage problem
The Department of Employment of Labour has called for comments on a new minimum wage target for South Africa in 2022, with the national minimum wage commission indicating that the national minimum wage...
Government to launch minimum wage compliance hotline
Employment and Labour Minister Thulas Nxesi will on Thursday launch a new hotline that will allow workers to report cases of non-compliance with the National Minimum Wage (NMW), at no cost...
Workforce hit by SA’s minimum wage legislation
Recently legislated minimum wage requirement in South Africa dented JSE-listed Workforce Holdings results, which saw it report an 8.4 percent slide in profits for the six months to end June.
The group's profits...
Catch 22 and the minimum wage law
To point out the flaws in making a minimum wage compulsory risks being seen as in favour of grinding the faces of the poor or advocating starvation, but however virtuous it...
Minimum Wage
For the first time in many years there is movement in the labour relations stand-off and that is something to celebrate, says the Cape Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
“While...