Minister Thulas Nxesi has raised the earnings threshold for employees receiving certain protections under the Basic Conditions of Employment Act
In its sixth annual report, SweepSouth attributes poor domestic worker pay to power cuts, inflation, the high cost of living and employers relocating
The national minimum wage policy is suffocating jobless people
It is time to scrap minimum wage and other labour laws that make it difficult to create employment
Only half of digital labour platforms could give evidence that workers were paid at or above the minimum wage, a new report shows
There is evidence that platform workers worldwide have unfair work conditions and lack benefits and protections afforded to employees
In Scandinavian countries, citizens can look up what any other citizen earns in an online national database. Could South Africa use a version of income transparency? Economists,…
Workers at the factory were found to be toiling under appalling conditions for only R65 a day.
Cases referred to the organisation increased by 4% since last year
The stipend for the community work programme is R780 a month — but they want the basic minimum wage of R3 500 a month that some workers now get
But both the commission and the department of labour say they have everything under control
Ramaphosa signed four bills into law in late November to give effect to a R3 500 monthly national minimum wage for most categories of workers.
President Muhammadu Buhari may have spoken too soon when he backed an initiative to hike his country’s minimum wage by a whopping two thirds
They are key to our economy and the functioning of many households for which they should be suitably rewarded
In order to gain faith in a social contract, the government not only has to increase minimum wages, but also lower the top wages
Minister Oliphant says it is a reminder that democracy is alive and real in South Africa
More than 4 000 worker and government delegates from the organisation’s 187 member states will attend the conference to tackle a wide range of issues
Disagreements over the proposed amendments threaten to push back the implementation date of the minimum wage until after Parliament’s recess in July
Oliphant condemned criticism of the bill as “nothing but pure electioneering and attempts to score cheap political points”
The minimum wage and the amendments were set to be implemented on Workers’ Day, May 1, but this was postponed
