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Employment and Labour
DoL & UIF & Compensation Fund & CCMA & NEDLAC & Productivity SA & Supported Employment Enterprises 2018/19 APP
25 Apr 2018
Discussions on the National Minimum Wage Bill featured prominently during the meeting involving the Department of Labour (DOL) and five of its entities. The DOL had set a target of 1 May 2018 for the implementation of the Bill, but this target may not be realised, although it was still ...
Employment and Labour
Labour Bills: deliberations
19 Apr 2018
The Portfolio Committee on Labour met for further deliberations on the Department’s responses to comments on the Labour Bills. The National Minimum Wage (NMW) Bill as well as the Basic Conditions of Employment (BCEA) Bill were discussed. Highlights of the discussions were as follows:
On the NMW Bill, The Retail ...
Employment and Labour
Labour Bills: Way-forward on the processing of submissions
27 Mar 2018
The Portfolio Committee on Labour, meeting for further public hearings on the Labour Bills, was told that the Consumer Goods Council of South Africa (CGCSA) supported the introduction of a national minimum wage, and that minimum wage setting should be removed from Sectoral Determinations. The repeal of Chapters 8 and ...
Employment and Labour
Labour Bills: public hearings & Department response to submission
22 Mar 2018
The Portfolio Committee on Labour sat to hear submissions on the National Minimum Wage Bill (NMWB), the Basic Conditions of Employment Amendment (BCEA) Bill and the Labour Relations Act (LRA) Amendment Bill. Concerns were raised at the start of the meeting about the rushed nature of the hearings given the ...
Employment and Labour
Labour Bills: summary of submissions
20 Mar 2018
The Portfolio Committee on Labour met, with Department officials in attendance, to receive a briefing by the Committee Content Adviser on the summaries of the submissions made on the three Labour bills before the Committee.
Since most of the submissions was submitted late on Friday, the Content Adviser was only able to ...
Employment and Labour
Committee Report on Department of Labour Quarter 2 performance; Labour Bills public hearings planning
14 Mar 2018
The Portfolio Committee on Labour met to consider the Draft Committee Report on the Quarter 2 performance of the Department of Labour (DoL); and to discuss the way forward in terms of the Labour Bills before the Committee.
The draft report had just two recommendations that talked to the fact ...
Public Enterprises
Eskom Inquiry: Ben Martins
31 Jan 2018
Deputy Minister for Public Enterprises, Mr Ben Martins, in his testimony, disputed Eskom’s suspended head of legal Ms Suzanne Daniels’s claim that the two had a meeting with Mr Duduzane Zuma, Mr Salim Essa and Mr Ajay Gupta at Melrose Arch on July 29, 2017. Mr Martins said that on ...
Rules of the National Assembly
Oversight of Presidency; Unanswered Questions by Executive, Mini-Plenaries; Pre-1994 Legislation
18 Oct 2017
The Committee discussed the practical implications of the establishment of a Subcommittee to Monitor Executive Responses to Unanswered Questions. Each quarter this Subcommittee would engage the relevant Ministers on the reasons for the questions being unanswered. The Subcommittee would report its findings to the Rules Committee and any recommendations to ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
SA Express irregular, fruitless & wasteful expenditure: hearing with Minister & Deputy Minister
30 Aug 2017
SA Express was called in for a hearing on its irregular, fruitless & wasteful expenditure incurred in 2015/16. However, looming over this was the fact that SA Express had an unaudited R234m loss in 2016/17, after a R16.9m profit in 2015/6. According to analysts and experts, SAX still had to ...
Public Enterprises
South African Express Airways & Safcol turnaround progress
14 Jun 2017
SAFCOL and South African Express Airways (SAX) briefed the portfolio Committee on Public Enterprises on their turnaround strategies and the implementation thereof.
Briefing by SAFCOL on progress made in the diversification strategy and turning around the company
According to SAFCOL, the forestry industry has only utilised 1 224 456 ha ...