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Government calls for comments on new minimum wage in South Africa
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Time is running out to comment on the annual review and adjustment of the National Minimum Wage for 2021.
The Department of Employment and Labour has alerted the public to the Friday deadline for their input into the review of the National Minimum Wage (NMW).
Written submissions are made to the NMW Commission in line with the National Minimum Wage Act.
The Act seeks to provide a more equitable pay structure that ensures working people do not live in poverty and also provides for exemptions for employers who truly cannot afford the adjustment.
N ew approaches to work brought on by COVID-19 have trade unionists fired up over worker rights and angling for a sit-down with the Government to discuss what they see as a need for “urgent” amendments to outdated labour laws.
Concurrently, trade unionists are hoping to open dialogue with corporations and the Government on policies intended to guide flexible work, or flexi-work, arrangements, now that more businesses are wilfully putting in place or contemplating permanent work-from-home programmes.
Remote work arrangements have turned out to be one of the upsides for businesses that during the economic lockdowns found that they could, in particular circumstances, continue to run their operations with satellite staff, thereby alleviating themselves of some of the attendant costs of operating office spaces.
The National Minimum Wage Act increases the number of unemployed in the country. The National Minimum Wage Commission, which was formed by legislation, turns a blind eye to the negative effect of the wage on the unemployed.
It goes even further than the politicians to make life hell on earth for the unemployed and domestic workers, as well as small businesses and their employees.
As they learn about the compulsory increases, all people who will be made worse off because of the minimum wage will be saying, “Why don’t you just leave us alone?” Among them will be those who will not get jobs because of the higher minimum wage; those who will not be able to employ more people if their businesses start growing; those who will have no option but to let staff members go because they cannot afford to pay higher wages; and mothers, especially single mothers, who hire young women to look after their children while they are at work.