Minimum Wage

Would wage transparency work in SA?

Article Carlos Amato - 25 Jan 2020

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.

EDITORIAL: Jo’burg’s ‘horror factory’

Article Editorial - 22 Nov 2019

Workers at the factory were found to be toiling under appalling conditions for only R65 a day.

CCMA case increases from national minimum wage

Article Thando Maeko - 14 Oct 2019

Cases referred to the organisation increased by 4% since last year

Bare minimum is just not enough

Article Sarah Smit - 7 Aug 2019

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

CCMA cases pile up with new law

Article Tshegofatso Mathe - 5 Jul 2019

But both the commission and the department of labour say they have everything under control

Ramaphosa: ‘Historic’ minimum wage to come into effect on January 1 2019

Article Tehillah Nieselow - 7 Dec 2018

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.

Nigeria’s new minimum wage: Too much to ask?

Africa Sophie Bouillon - 11 Nov 2018

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

Maximum wages are the next step in SA’s social dialogue

Article bogdan TagDiv - 30 May 2018

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

Domestic workers carry the country

Article bogdan TagDiv - 30 May 2018

They are key to our economy and the functioning of many households for which they should be suitably rewarded

National Assembly’s approval of Minimum Wage Bill a milestone — Oliphant

Article Lameez Omarjee - 29 May 2018

Minister Oliphant says it is a reminder that democracy is alive and real in South Africa

SA heads to the International Labour Conference

Article Sarah Smit - 28 May 2018

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

Ramaphosa yields to wage concerns

Article Govan Whittles - 25 May 2018

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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Focus on FW de Klerk distracted attention from the troubling state of the nation

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Some political analysts say President Cyril Ramaphosa is taking too long to mend the country, others says it is the ANC itself that must be fixed

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Eastern Cape MEC orders graft investigation after two workers killed at troubled district municipality

Chris Gilili - 17 Feb 2020

The killing of two council workers at the Amathole district municipality appears to be linked to tender fraud and corruption

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Response to the report of the independent assessors

IT Web - 17 Feb 2020

VUT welcomes the publishing of the report of the independent assessors to investigate concerns of poor governance, leadership, management, corruption and fraud at the university.

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