Mr Ian Michael Ollis

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Ian Michael Ollis

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Committee Meetings Attended

  • 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: 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 ...

  • Employment and Labour National Minimum Wage: UWC, PLAAS and Progressive Professionals Forum
    12 Sep 2014

    National Minimum Wage submissions were made by the Social Law Project at the University of the Western Cape (UWC), the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) in conjunction with the UWC and the Progressive Professionals Forum (PPF).

    The University of Western Cape argued for the introduction of a ...

  • Employment and Labour National Minimum Wage: input from South African National Taxi Council & Stellenbosch University
    10 Sep 2014

    SANTACO presented on the national minimum wage (NMW). The taxi industry is a critical pillar in South Africa’s public sector, transporting more than 70% of passengers per day which is approximately 16.5 million commuters. SANTACO had over 100 000 members, represents 90% of taxi owners and was the major broad ...

  • Employment and Labour Adoption of Committee Report on the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Conventions
    31 Jul 2014

    The Committee adopted its Committee Report on the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Conventions.

  • Employment and Labour Department of Labour on International Labour Organisation conventions
    30 Jul 2014

    The meeting focused on two International Labour Organisation (ILO) conventions.  These were the ratification of the 1986 instrument on the amendment to the constitution of the ILO, and the recommendations concerning the national floors of social protection.

    Members were told the ILO operated on the same basis as the United ...

  • Employment and Labour Committee Report on Department of Labour and its entities 2014 Budget
    10 Jul 2014

    The Portfolio Committee on Labour met to adopt the report of the recommendations made by the Committee on Budget Vote 18: Labour and on the Strategic Plans of the Department of Labour (2014 – 2019) and its Entities.

    The Committee was generally satisfied with the plans of the Department of ...

  • Employment and Labour Commission Conciliation, Mediation Arbitration, Nedlac, Productivity SA on their 2014 Strategic Plans
    3 Jul 2014

    The Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) presented its plans for 2014/15, and explained that its main role was to enrich the labour market. With the increase in the number of retrenchments it had also played a role in lay-off training and had established a job saving unit. Its ...

  • Employment and Labour Election of Chairperson
    25 Jun 2014

    Ms Lumka Yengeni (ANC) was elected unopposed as Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Labour. She urged Members to work together and set aside their political differences so as to prioritise serving South African citizens. She emphasised that Committee Members were allowed to have robust debates as long as they ...