Minimum wage would notably help women living in poverty, Oxfam says
ESTABLISHING a national minimum wage is a good entry point for dealing with SA’s extreme economic inequality and poverty‚ Oxfam SA said on Tuesday.Oxfam was welcoming the appointment of its economic justice programme head‚ Ayabonga Cawe‚ to the minimum wage advisory panel announced by Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa.The panel‚ which will advise the government on setting an appropriate national minimum wage and comprises economic experts‚ was made public on Sunday."The issue of the minimum wage is a very important one in a country like SA, which is battling serious poverty‚ inequality and unemployment. If addressed properly‚ a reasonable minimum wage will go a long way in uplifting the lives of people living in poverty in the country‚ including women‚" Oxfam SA said in a statement.According to the organisation‚ statistics show that women are paid poorly compared with their male counterparts‚ for doing the same job with the same skills level. It added that women were also over-repres...
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