EXCLUSIVE: National minimum wage commission finally in place
The minimum wage legislation is set to improve the lives of at least 6-million workers who currently earn less than the set R20 hourly rate
Labour minister Mildred Oliphant has finally appointed the 13-member national minimum wage commission following a tussle over candidates that delayed the implementation of the law in 2018. Business Day has been reliably informed that Oliphant will publicly announce the members of the commission this week. The new commission will be chaired by professor Adriaan van der Walt, a labour law academic at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth. He occupied the same position at the Employment Conditions Commission. Other appointees include Global Business Solutions CEO Jonathan Goldberg and Nedbank executive Kaizer Moyane, who were nominated by the business grouping at the National Economic Development and Labour Council (Nedlac). Wits University’s dean of commerce, law and management, professor Imraan Valodia, who chaired the expert panel that recommended the R20 rate, senior economist at Trade & Industrial Policy Strategies Neva Makgetla and associate professor of so...
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