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Employment and Labour
Labour Laws Amendment Bill: Department response to submissions
2 Nov 2016
The Department of Labour (DoL) responded to public comments on the Labour Laws Amendment Bill which is a Private Members’ Bill. The submissions proposed changes to clause 3 which states:
- An employee who is a parent and who is not entitled to maternity leave, is entitled to ten consecutive ...
Employment and Labour
Department of Labour & Auditor-General input on audit disagreements; Labour BRRR
26 Oct 2016
Annual Reports 2015/16
The purpose of this meeting was to assist the Committee to understand the concerns which Auditor General South Africa (AGSA) had raised in its management report, to give a voice to the concerns the Department of Labour had with the AGSA report and thirdly to allow the ...
Employment and Labour
DoL, Unemployment Insurance Fund; Compensation Fund; Productivity SA; CCMA; & Nedlac on their 2015/16 Annual Reports with Auditor General input
12 Oct 2016
Auditor General of South Africa (AGSA), dealt with the actual audit outcomes of the Department of Labour (DoL) which had been gathered over the past three years. The majority of the financial statements provided had a number of material misstatements, which was a concern. In terms of ...
Employment and Labour
Labour Law Amendment Bill: public hearings
22 Sep 2016
The Committee convened a hearing on the Labour Law Amendment bill, which had been proposed by Ms C Dudley (ACDP). The background to the bill was that only pregnant women could take maternity leave, and the father of the child was also entitled to some days of leave. The new ...
Employment and Labour
Compensation Fund turnaround strategy
24 Aug 2016
The new Compensation Fund Commissioner noted that improvements had been made by the Compensation Fund in processing claims but the Fund was still not out of its troubled status. Prior to his appointment, the Fund had been in a chaotic financial state for many years, receiving repeated adverse opinions from ...
Employment and Labour
Labour Laws Amendment Bill; Nedlac UIF proposals: Impact Assessment Report by Department of Labour
17 Aug 2016
The Department of Labour gave its view of the private member’s bill, Labour Laws Amendment Bill PMB6-2015, introduced by Ms Cheryllyn Dudley MP. It noted that the Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) currently has an accumulated surplus of about R120 billion. The Unemployment Insurance Amendment Bill [B25-2015] currently before the National ...
Employment and Labour
Labour Laws Amendment Bill: way forward; DoL Quarter 4 performance & Protected Employment Enterprises: status report
25 May 2016
The Supported Employment Enterprises was set up to create employment for ex-service persons who had disabilities that prevented them from entering the open labour market. The entity had preferential procurement status. A brief history of the former Sheltered Employment Factories and SEE was set out, including the turnaround strategies and ...
Employment and Labour
Committee Report on Labour Budget
4 May 2016
The Portfolio Committee on Labour considered the draft budget vote report on Budget Vote 28, titled: Labour and on the Strategic Plans of the Department of Labour (2014 -2019) and its entities as well as one set of outstanding minutes.
The Chairperson took Members through the report swiftly, pausing only ...
Employment and Labour
Labour Laws Amendment Bill: briefing; Compensation Fund turnaround strategy
20 Apr 2016
The Committee received a briefing from Ms Cheryllyn Dudley (ACDP) on her Private Members Bill (PMB), called the Labour Laws Amendment Bill. The presentation covered background information to the Bill which sought to provide for parental leave, adoption leave and commissioning parental leave. It also provided for the payment of ...
Employment and Labour
Compensation Fund & Productivity South Africa 2016 budget review, Unemployment Insurance Amendment Bill [B25-15]: Democratic Alliance proposals for changes
7 Apr 2016
The Committee firstly addressed a technical amendment that was introduced by a Member of the DA on the Unemployment Insurance Amendment Bill. The presenting MP noted that the money in this Fund was not so much government money as money paid in directly by individuals and their companies, and that ...