Labour Vanguard

Failed youth wage subsidy must go

Johannesburg - There are renewed calls for the controversial youth wage subsidy to be scrapped following the release of a study revealing that the legislation has had no significant effect on the country’s soaring youth unemployment rates.

The Young Communist League (YCL) said on Thursday that the findings supported its belief that the subsidy would not work in South Africa because many did not...

THURSDAY, 08 JANUARY 2015

The minimum wage for the contract cleaning sector has risen to R16.98 per hour in metropolitan and local council areas, the labour department said on Wednesday.

 "The new minimum wage will be binding with effect from January 6, 2015 to November 30, 2015," Labour Minister Mildred Oliphant's spokesman Mokgadi Pela indicated in a statement. The metropoles include the cities of Cape Town, Ekurhuleni, Johannesburg, Tshwane, and Nelson Mandel...

 1.Did the worker break a rule or a standard of conduct ?

2.Was this rule or standard conduct fair and reasonable to the worker?

3.Was the worker aware of the rule or standard conduct ,or shouldthe worker have known?

4.Did the employer apply the rule or standard in a consistentmanner (examples of previous case in the workplace)

5.Was the dismissal the best kind of disciplinary action to takeor could the employer use another disciplinary method ,li...

THE mining and farming town ofFochville, in the south of Gauteng, signifies a tale of two cities.

A drive and a first glance intoFochville, near Carletonville, paints a picture of affluence judging by thesize of some of the tiled-roof and face-brick properties. However, hidden atthe back of the town is the township of Kokosi, where present and former mineworkers and their families live.

In the dusty, untarred roads ofKokosi, goats and cattle roam, typical of any rural environment ...

ILO: Countries investing in high quality jobs can make economic leaps The ILO’s flagship report on the world of work shows, for the first time, that quality jobs can drive sustained growth in emerging and developing countries.

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minimum wage hearings held off to January

PUBLIC hearings on a national minimum wage are expected to resume in January, with an intention to hold them in all provinces possibly before the state of the nation address in February.

Parliament’s portfolio committee on labour has expressed satisfaction with the rate of progress of the hearings. But it has postponed a hearing that was scheduled to take place on Friday in Free State province....

We can’t grow SA with poverty wages, write Gilad Isaacs and Ben Fine

In 1993, Princeton researchers David Card and Alan Krueger turned conventional wisdom on its head. Their now famous study showed that increasing the minimum wage in New Jersey, US, did not have negative employment effects on that state’s fast food industry.

The debate over the future of South Africa’s new national minimum wage legislation, which is heating up, would be strengthened by a consider...

According to City Press, the labour broking industry is pleased with new research that seems to tag it as a cornerstone of the economy and a means of relief to the poor.

The research in question was presented by University of Cape Town economics professor Haroon Bhorat at an event organised by labour broker lobby group - the Confederation of Associations in the Private Employment Sector (CAPES.)

Bhorat estimates:

970,000 brokered employees worked in SA in the first q...