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Gig workers are at the front line of pandemic

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There is evidence that platform workers worldwide have unfair work conditions and lack benefits and protections afforded to employees
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Would wage transparency work in SA?

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In Scandinavian countries, citizens can look up what any other citizen earns in an online national database. Could South Africa use a version of income transparency? Economists, as usual, are divided.
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EDITORIAL: Jo’burg’s ‘horror factory’

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Workers at the factory were found to be toiling under appalling conditions for only R65 a day.
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CCMA case increases from national minimum wage

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Cases referred to the organisation increased by 4% since last year
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Bare minimum is just not enough

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The stipend for the community work programme is R780 a month — but they want the basic minimum wage of R3 500 a month that some workers now get
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CCMA cases pile up with new law

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But both the commission and the department of labour say they have everything under control
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Ramaphosa: ‘Historic’ minimum wage to come into effect on January 1 2019

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Ramaphosa signed four bills into law​ in late November to give effect to a R3 500 monthly national minimum wage for most categories of workers.
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Nigeria’s new minimum wage: Too much to ask?

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President Muhammadu Buhari may have spoken too soon when he backed an initiative to hike his country's minimum wage by a whopping two thirds
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Maximum wages are the next step in SA’s social dialogue

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In order to gain faith in a social contract, the government not only has to increase minimum wages, but also lower the top wages
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Domestic workers carry the country

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​They are key to our economy and the functioning of many households for which they should be suitably rewarded
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National Assembly’s approval of Minimum Wage Bill a milestone — Oliphant

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Minister Oliphant says it is a reminder that democracy is alive and real in South Africa
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SA heads to the International Labour Conference

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More than 4 000 worker and government delegates from the organisation's 187 member states will attend the conference to tackle a wide range of issues
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Ramaphosa yields to wage concerns

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Disagreements over the proposed amendments threaten to push back the implementation date of the minimum wage until after Parliament’s recess in July
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Oliphant slams national minimum wage detractors

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Oliphant condemned criticism of the bill as “nothing but pure electioneering and attempts to score cheap political points”
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Labour department accused of undermining ‘meaningful national minimum wage package’

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The minimum wage and the amendments were set to be implemented on Workers’ Day, May 1, but this was postponed
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