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Employment and Labour
Accessing Workplaces for Unannounced Oversight Visits: legal opinion; DoL Update on Western Cape & KZN oversight recommendations; DoL Budget approval
17 May 2017
Apologies were received from the Director General and Deputy Director General inspection and enforcement services
The Department briefed the Committee on the Western Cape oversight visit on 22-24 March 2017. The Committee noted with concern, the absence of the Chief inspector of KwaZulu-Natal and the Chief Director Provincial Operations. The ...
Employment and Labour
Committee Report on Quarter 1 & 2 Performance of Entities; Committee Reports on oversight visits
10 May 2017
Draft Committee Minutes dated 8 March 2017
Draft Committee Minutes dated 3 May 2017
Draft Committee Reports dated 4 May 2017
The Chairperson informed the Committee of the presence of a new Member, Ms Lerato Theko (ANC).
The Committee considered and adopted draft minutes dated 8 March 2017, 3 May ...
Employment and Labour
Unemployment Insurance Fund; Productivity South Africa & CCMA on their Annual Performance Plans
4 May 2017
Productivity South Africa (ProdSA) said it would have a significant role to play when the proposed minimum wage of R20 an hour came into force. Companies “with a negative attitude” were already cutting back on their employee complements in anticipation of the minimum wage implementation, and ProdSA would need to ...
Employment and Labour
Department of Labour; Supported Employment Enterprises; NEDLAC; Compensation Fund Annual Performance Plans
3 May 2017
The Portfolio Committee received presentations from the Department of Labour, the National Economic Development and Labour Council (NEDLAC), the Compensation Fund and the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) on their annual performance plans (APPs) for the 2017/18 financial year. The entities provided details of their objectives and the ...
Employment and Labour
National Minimum Wage: Committee Report on National Minimum Wage
8 Mar 2017
The issue of minimum wage was brought to life when the President Zuma first mentioned it in the 2014 State of the Nation Address. Following the address by the President, the Committee embarked on an information gathering exercise in order to ascertain what the nation’s views were. A total of ...
Employment and Labour
Minister on National Minimum Wage; Department inspections: feedback
1 Mar 2017
The Minister of Labour briefed the Committee on the progress made on the national minimum wage. She explained the national minimum wage will not take over or review the previous signed wage agreements nor will it review the sectoral determinations except where the sectoral minimum wage is less than the ...
Employment and Labour
Compensation Fund, Unemployment Insurance Fund, Supported Employment Enterprises: Quarter 1 and 2 financial and performance briefings
22 Feb 2017
The Department of Labour (DOL) briefed the Committee on the first and second quarter performance for the Compensation Fund, Unemployment Insurance Fund and Supported Employment Enterprises. Detailed figures and descriptors were provided, target by target. For the Compensation Fund, it was noted that in quarter 1, 58% (20 183) of ...
Employment and Labour
Nedlac, Productivity SA, Nedlac, Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration, on their Quarter 1 and 2 2016 Reports
15 Feb 2017
Productivity SA (ProdSA), the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA), and National Economic Development and Labour Council (Nedlac) presented their 2016/17 quarter 1 and quarter 2 performance reports to the Committee.
ProdSA noted under-performance in both quarters, with particularly poor performance in Q1 against the targets of supporting enterprises ...
Employment and Labour
Compensation Fund Action Plan update; Department of Labour Quarter 2 performance
7 Dec 2016
The Department of Labour briefed the Committee on its action plan for the Compensation Fund and on its second quarterly performance report for the 2016/17 financial year.
The Compensation Fund had developed an action plan which would serve as a blueprint for the service delivery improvement initiatives. Implementation had started ...
Employment and Labour
Labour Laws Amendment Bill: deliberations
30 Nov 2016
Relevant Document
Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996
Unemployment Insurance Act 63 of 2001
The Parliamentary Legal Advisor took Members through the latest amendments that had been proposed to the Labour Laws Amendment Bill (the Bill) in accordance with what had been discussed and agreed on in previous ...