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All the new minimum wages in SA â with big increases for domestic workers Business Insider SA
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The new national minimum wage is R21.69 per hour, an increase of 4.5%.
Farm workers minimum wage is now equal to the national minimum wage for the first time.
The minimum wage for domestic workers is still below the national wage, but has been hiked by 23% this year - and should be on par by 2022.
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Last year, the National Minimum Wage Commission recommended that the minimum wage be increased by inflation (currently around 3%) plus 1.5%.
It noted that inflation for poorer households is currently significantly higher than for higher-income earners, due to the relatively sharp increase in food prices. Because the households of minimum-wage earners spend more of their income on food, this hurts them more than higher earners.
Farmers cannot afford to pay higher wages â agri organisations Glenneis Kriel
Picture for illustration: iStock The National Minimum Wage per hour was proposed to increase 1,5% above inflation to roughly R21,69.
Farmworker wages could increase as much as 16,1% in 2021. This after the National Minimum Wage Commission recommending in November 2020 that the minimum wage for farmworkers be aligned with the national minimum wage (NMW) in 2021, based on the argument that the agriculture sector was not as severely affected as other sectors by the Covid-19-related lockdown.
The NMW per hour was proposed to increase 1,5% above inflation to roughly R21,69.
Agricultural organisations, however, were opposing the recommendation. Henry Geldenhuys, president of TAU SA, called
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