Strong opposition has been expressed in Parliament to the abolition of sectoral wage determinations once the minimum wage bill becomes law. Parliament’s labour portfolio committee is holding public hearings on the National Minimum Wage Bill and related amendments to the Basic Conditions of Employment Act and the Labour Relations Act. The removal of sectoral determinations, a measure introduced by the Department of Labour and not as a result of negotiations within the National Economic Development and Labour Council, will hit farm workers particularly hard. A researcher with the National Minimum Wage Research Initiative at the University of the Witwatersrand, Gilad Isaacs, said in a submission to the committee on Friday that sectoral determinations, which govern non-unionised sectors, were an important tool to protect the most vulnerable workers and to reduce poverty and wage inequality. DA labour spokesman Michael Bagraim agreed that the provision for sectoral determinations should ...
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