MINIMUM WAGE
Think tank roasts labour department for undermining minimum wage bill
The Department of Labour is undermining the draft legislation on the minimum wage by ignoring instructions from the parliamentary portfolio committee, a labour think tank at Wits University said on Tuesday. This would not be the first time the department has bungled the drafting of the critical legislation aimed at improving the lives of more than 6-million South Africans earning less than the envisaged minimum wage rate of R20 per hour. Earlier in 2018, Labour Minister Mildred Oliphant described the exclusion of agreements on the bill by organised labour, the government and business at the National Economic Development and Labour Council (Nedlac) as an "erroneous oversight" by state lawyers. The committee referred the bill to the department in April for corrections after public submissions. However, experts at the Wits University National Minimum Wage Research Initiative said the department had not effected the changes, resulting instead in the dilution of the bill. The weakened se...
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