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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 ...
Employment and Labour
Labour Laws Amendment Bill: deliberations
23 Nov 2016
Relevant Document
Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996
Unemployment Insurance Act 63 of 2001
The Committee deliberated on the Labour Laws Amendment Bill, after deliberations had been postponed when the matter was discussed at the previous meeting, so that Members could consult their political parties and discuss the ...
Employment and Labour
Labour Laws Amendment Bill: deliberations
16 Nov 2016
Relevant Document
Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996
Unemployment Insurance Act 63 of 2001
The Chairperson said that this meeting had been convened to consider points raised in the public hearings on the Labour Laws Amendment Bill (the Bill), and in light of some of the views expressed ...
Employment and Labour
Labour Laws Amendment Bill costing: Department of Labour briefing; Committee reports adopted
9 Nov 2016
The Department of Labour (DoL) briefed the Committee further on the costing of the Labour Laws Amendment Bill, in answer to the Committee's concerns as expressed at a previous meeting. Three scenarios in regard to the amendments had been proposed. The Nedlac social partners agreed to consider further amendments to ...
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
Labour Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report; Fourth Term Programme
19 Oct 2016
The Committee Content Advisor briefed the Committee on its the Budgetary Review and Recommendation Report. Recommendations were that the Department reported quarterly to the Committee, vacant funded posts be filled, the Department set its performance targets in line with its human and financial resources. The Committee recommended capacitating Labour Centres ...
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 ...