Latest articles on Minimum Wage

Gig workers are at the front line of pandemic

Article Kelle Howson - 19 Mar 2020

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?

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.

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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 Staff Reporter - 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 Staff Reporter - 30 May 2018

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

Article Lameez Omarjee - 29 May 2018

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

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

Oliphant slams national minimum wage detractors

Article Sarah Smit - 15 May 2018

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’

Article Sarah Smit - 14 May 2018

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

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