22 February 2021 | Labour
EXEMPT: The Agriculture Employers’ Association feels that agricultural employers should be exempted from a national minimum wage. Photo: FILE
ELLANIE SMIT
WINDHOEK
The Agriculture Employers Association (AEA) is of the opinion that agricultural employers should be exempted from a national minimum wage as there is already a unique minimum wage for farmworkers.
The labour ministry last week inaugurated a Wage Commission to investigate the possibility of introducing a national minimum wage. The commission is expected to investigate all industries, report and make recommendations to the ministry.
The AEA will submit input on behalf of commercial agriculture to this commission. The management of the Agriculture Employers Association (AEA) recently held discussions with the labour minister, Uutoni Nujoma, to inform him about the current labour issues in agriculture.
21 January 2021 | Labour
STAFF REPORTER
WINDHOEK
Some political parties have thrown their weight behind Shoprite employees who continue to be at loggerheads with their employer over salary and benefits demands.
The Popular Democratic Movement (PDM) and the National Unity Democratic Organisation (Nudo) have called for an immediate solution to the impasse in order to avoid job and economic losses.
Also, Swapo has condemned the police s use of excess force against striking Shoprite group employees at Oshakati over the weekend.
The ruling party s regional office was responding to a video - which has gone viral on social media - of a severely injured protester who is said to have been shot by the Namibian police on 15 January.