Fawu wants a minimum wage 50% higher than the one on the table
The Food and Allied Workers Union (Fawu) on Monday rejected the proposed national minimum wage of R3,500 "as inappropriate and far from addressing the treble challenges of unemployment‚ inequality and poverty". Instead‚ the union said‚ it wants a minimum wage of R5,700 a month. Fawu general secretary Katishi Masemola said the union "will not only make submissions but wage campaigns because this country cannot afford to be the case study of treble challenges and social ills". Fawu’s campaign will call for: • The introduction of new taxes‚ especially wealth and reparation taxes; • an increased rate of both PAYE and corporate taxes to apartheid-days levels; and • a 10% tax on the cash reserves of all organisations, whether listed companies‚ privately owned companies, or nongovernmental organisations, trade unions and other civil society organisations. Masemola also said Fawu did "not understand the rationale for a possible exclusion‚ couched as special consideration" for both the domes...
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