LETTER: Stop extending bargaining council agreements to small businesses
Many of the budget proposals coming from the public to finance minister Tito Mboweni entail more government spending to obtain benefits. However, one small but effective proposal already made by Mboweni himself is to stop the ministerial practice of extending bargaining council agreements to small businesses.
This practice can be stopped by the stroke of a pen with immediate effect, at absolutely no cost. This will result in freeing up small business to take on more employees, and potentially create more than 1-million new jobs. Over and above this, it would stop the wholesale retrenchments that are taking place at present...
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