New wages for workers from next week – and other laws planned for South Africa you should know about
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South Africa’s new minimum wage of R21.69 for each ordinary hour worked will officially take effect on Monday (1 March 2021).
Sector-specific changes will also be introduced on the same day, including:
Farmworkers are entitled to a minimum wage of R21.69 per hour;
Domestic workers are entitled to a minimum wage of R19.09 per hour;
Workers employed on an expanded public works programme are entitled to a minimum wage of R11.93 per hour.
Employment and Labour minister Thulas Nxesi said 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.
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These planned changes aim to speed up transformation in South Africa
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Parliament has announced the extension of the public comment period on the Employment Equity Amendment Bill until 5 March 2021.
Legal firm ENSAfrica says that the bill is important as it seeks to amend a number of clauses in the current Employment Equity Act (EEA) in an effort to speed up transformation.
“The main thrust of the amendments is to increase substantive compliance with the objects and provisions of Chapter III of the EEA which deal with affirmative action measure,” it said.
“According to the Commission for Employment Equity, the implementation of the affirmative action provisions in the EEA, has been slow.
Ramaphosa’s only ‘success’ is forging ahead with NDR - Biznews
18 February 2021 - Despite the many pious platitudes in last week’s SONA (state-of-the-nation address), the only ‘reforms’ President Cyril Ramaphosa is busy implementing are the policy shifts needed to advance the national democratic revolution (NDR) to which both he and the SACP/ANC alliance have long been committed.
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n an article published on BizNews last year, the IRR’s Anthea Jeffery described the National Democratic Revolution as a ‘Soviet-inspired programme intended to take the country by incremental steps – and over a period of 40 years or more – from a capitalist economy to a socialist one’. Jeffery elaborates further, listing three of the ‘most damaging’ interventions that were to be introduced at the time. One of them was allowing for expropriation without compensation – a topic that has many South Africans fearing the future. The potential damage of EWC on the economic gr
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