Minimum Wage

Minister Thulas Nxesi has raised the earnings threshold for employees receiving certain protections under the Basic Conditions of Employment Act

In its sixth annual report, SweepSouth attributes poor domestic worker pay to power cuts, inflation, the high cost of living and employers relocating

The national minimum wage policy is suffocating jobless people

It is time to scrap minimum wage and other labour laws that make it difficult to create employment

Only half of digital labour platforms could give evidence that workers were paid at or above the minimum wage, a new report shows

A group of South African Uber drivers plan to go to court to seek employee rights including compensation for overtime and holiday pay, hoping for a similar victory to that of…

There is evidence that platform workers worldwide have unfair work conditions and lack benefits and protections afforded to employees

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,…

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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