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Employment and Labour
National Minimum Wage: state of readiness for way forward
18 Feb 2015
The Portfolio Committee on Labour held a meeting to deliberate and to receive reports on the state of readiness of the support team regarding the public hearings on the national minimum wage, and to air their opinion on lapses in the Parliamentary support system.
The Chairperson expressed concern over ...
Employment and Labour
PC Labour: Oversight Reports
19 Nov 2014
The Committee considered and adopted with amendments a Draft Report of the Portfolio Committee on Labour on an unannounced visit to the Nyanga Satellite Office and Bellville Labour Centre. The Committee discussed the hygienic concerns of the Nyanga Centre and the Department of Labour’s daily quota on how many people ...
Employment and Labour
Compensation Fund: briefing on plans to address performance & governance challenges
5 Nov 2014
The meeting started by the Commissioner for the Compensation Fund (CF) answering 16 questions addressed to the Compensation Fund (CF) at a previous meeting.
Mr Shadrack Mkhonto, Commissioner for the Compensation Fund addressed the 16 questions as previously asked by the Committee. The Fund could not provide a clear answer ...
Employment and Labour
Labour Budget Review and Recommendation Report
28 Oct 2014
The Portfolio Committee on Labour met to consider amendments to the Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report.
One of the main issues discussed was the need to fill vacant posts. The budget had been cut because of under-spending, as there had been delays in filling the vacant posts over the past ...
Employment and Labour
NEDLAC & Department of Labout on their 2013/2014 Annual Reports
17 Oct 2014
The Portfolio Committee met to receive presentations from the National Economic Development and Labour Council on its 2013/2014 Annual Report, the Department of Labour on its Annual Report Achievements and Challenges, the Department of Labour on its presentation on the mining sector, and the Department of Labour on its Quarter ...
Employment and Labour
Compensation Fund, Commission for Conciliation, Mediation, Arbitration on 2013/14 Annual Reports
16 Oct 2014
The Compensation Fund (CF) briefed the Committee on its 2013/14 Annual Reports. The Compensation Commissioner for the CF informed the Committee that this had not been a good year, and the CF had again received a disclaimer audit, with particular challenges around revenue collection and management. The Auditor-General (AG) apparently ...
Employment and Labour
Analysis of DoL & its entities financial performance: Parliamentary Researcher Unit briefing; Audit outcomes: AGSA briefing
15 Oct 2014
The Committee was briefed by researchers of the Appropriations Committee on the financial performance of Department of Labour and its entities, and by the Auditor General of South Africa on the audit outcomes.
The researchers described Department’s expenditure and variances for the year. Total expenditure had amounted to R2.37bn, which ...
Employment and Labour
Draft Labour Committee programme for third quarter 2014
25 Sep 2014
The Portfolio Committee on Labour met to consider its draft programme for the third quarter of 2014, and to review the executive summary report on its unannounced oversight visits to the Nyanga and Bellville satellite office and labour centre.
Some of the programme amendments turned out to be quite contentious. ...
Employment and Labour
National Minimum Wage: input by Chamber of Mines
19 Sep 2014
The Chamber of Mines, an employer organization representing about 90% of the mining production in South Africa, said that it appreciates the value of the national minimum wage (NMW) as one of a range of mechanisms to address inequality. Nevertheless, a NMW across all industries might not be appropriate as ...
Employment and Labour
National Minimum Wage: Agri-SA submission
17 Sep 2014
Agri-SA, a federation of agricultural organisations, representing a diverse grouping of individual farmers in the country, said in principle it accepted a national minimum wage but emphasised that the sectoral determination needed to be taken into consideration and it should be applied on different levels. The implementation of a national ...