LETTER: No agreement to grant total exemptions to minimum wage
Minister Mildred Oliphant consulted widely and opted to maintain the threshold
The article by Claire Bisseker (Exemption clause threatens success of minimum wage, January 15), refers. The article bears some inaccuracies and misdiagnoses the rationale for the exemption thresholds contained in the national minimum wage regulations recently published by the minister of labour. The allegations of bad faith levelled against the minister and department officials regarding reneging on an agreement to grant total exemptions to certain categories of business is devoid of all truth, as the ministry is not aware of an existence of such an agreement, nor seen a copy. Notwithstanding the fact that drafting regulations is a prerogative of the minister, in this case the minister went out of her way and consulted all social partners of her intentions to publish regulations and how the contents thereof would be structured. The minister did apply her mind on all submissions that were received, including those from business, and opted to protect the minimum wage for vulnerable w...
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