Labour broker Workforce Holdings is still awaiting interpretation by the Constitutional Court of what a "deeming provision" is, as well as the definition of "employer" in the employment relationship of an employee, whom it describes as an assignee. The company says an assignee is someone working longer than three months and earning less than R205,433 annually. The case follows the labour appeal court’s ruling of July 2017, and comes amid pressure within the governing ANC-led tripartite alliance to outlaw labour broking. "We remain confident … that the initial ruling in the labour court will be upheld and that assignees will continue to be deemed to be an employee of both Workforce and our clients," it said on Thursday in its results for the year to end-December. Aftertax profit rose 7.6% to R98.5m on 11.3% revenue growth to R2.8bn. Headline earnings per share increased by 7% to 42.8c, with net asset value rising 21.5% to 237c per share. However, Workforce did not declare a dividend ...
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