Higher minimum wage for South Africa was not a ‘thumb suck’: minister
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Employment and Labour minister Thulas Nxesi has reiterated that the adjustment of the National Minimum Wage rate was the outcome of an extensive consultation process.
The minister on Monday made the comment in response to the outcry on the newly adjusted National Minimum Wage (NMW) rates.
The department last week announced that the NMW increased to R21.69 per hour from R20.76 from March.
The minimum wage is a tool to ensure that vulnerable workers do not fall below the poverty line and it is designed to reduce inequality and huge disparities in income in the national labour market.