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The textile industry is one of the important in South Africa. It employs around 80 000 people and provides important exports, but textile pollution is a serious problem
COUNTRY

Minimum wage: Over 360 employers want out

Last week President Cyril Ramaphosa revealed in his Sona that a ‘number of companies have applied for exemptions’ from the R20 an hour minimum wage

  • Sarah Smit
2 min read
President Ramaphosa spearheaded the four-year process that led up to the signing on Friday after he was appointed by former president Jacob Zuma in 2014 to stabilise the labour environment. (GCIS)
BUSA

Ramaphosa: ‘Historic’ minimum wage to come into effect on January 1 2019

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.

  • Tehillah Nieselow
2 min read
Aerofarms in Newark, New Jersey, is the world’s largest high-tech vertical ‘farm’. It’s in a 9?144m2 warehouse, which has no sun or soil and uses less water
CIVIL SERVANTS

Bombshell plan to lay off 30 000 public servants

The move is in line with a reconfiguration process to drastically cut the state’s wage bill

  • Dineo Bendile
  • Paddy Harper
  • Govan Whittles
4 min read
The proposed national minimum wage is R20 an hour for the average worker
CIVIL SOCIETY

Saftu: Working Class Summit to counter partisan trade unionism

The federation wants to bring together trade unions and civil society to fight the capitalist class

  • Sarah Smit
4 min read
The South African Federation of Trade Unions has criticised the National Minimum Wage Bill as inadequate.
BASIC CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT AMENDMENT BILL

R20/hour a step closer for workers

The new green-lit labour laws include a provision for unions to decide on strikes by secret ballot

  • Sarah Smit
4 min read
The party has denied the allegations made by Thembinkosi Rawula. (Screenshot via YouTube)
COSATU

EFF spurns minimum wage in National Assembly debate

Labour minister, however, calls the approval of the National Minimum Wage Bill ‘a milestone’

  • Sarah Smit
3 min read
A national minimum wage commission will also be established to take over the functions of the employment equity commission.
BASIC CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT AMENDMENT BILL

National Assembly’s approval of Minimum Wage Bill a milestone — Oliphant

Minister Oliphant says it is a reminder that democracy is alive and real in South Africa

  • Lameez Omarjee
5 min read