NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE
THETO MAHLAKOANA: Time to look at how Nedlac’s minimum wage deal was mutated
The placing on ice of the national minimum wage has had surprising positives, not least being the ANC’s conciliatory attitude and handling of the affair. It could have been an embarrassing saga as the legislation would have been returned to Parliament by the Constitutional Court had it been rushed through without following due process. Political maturity has prevailed, and now a roadmap can be sketched to benefit the most vulnerable workers in the country. The draft policy was launched in February 2017 and will improve the lives of 6-million workers who earn less than the R20 an hour minimum wage level that has been agreed upon. The decision to push back the implementation came after protests by labour unions and opposition parties that the parliamentary process was being rushed. But of more significance is that the delay will allow enough time for MPs, organised labour and academics to interrogate how the agreement reached at the National Economic Development and Labour Council (Ne...
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