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 ...
Tourism
South African Tourism on its 2015/16 Annual Report
14 Oct 2016
South African Tourism 2015/16 Annual Report [awaited email info@pmg.org.za]
Minister Hanekom provided some context to the briefing to be given by SA Tourism. Tourism was important to SA as a job creator. SA Tourism had a newly appointed Chief Executive Officer which had only held office for nine days to date. ...
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 ...
Tourism
National Department of Tourism on its Jan-Jun 2016 performance
9 Sep 2016
The Committee was given insight into three issues that would not come out in the briefings. First on the area of international tourism the National Department of Tourism had a number of “soft” objectives that it pursued that did not necessarily feature in its plans submitted to Parliament. For example, ...
Employment and Labour
Mpumalanga farm inspections: Department of Home Affairs update; Department of Labour 1st quarter 2016 performance; Labour Law Amendment Bill
7 Sep 2016
The Committee noted that after visiting several farms in Mpumalanga, it had highlighted various problems around non-compliance with immigration laws by employers and had requested the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) and the Department of Labour (DOL) to look into the issues and conduct their own inspections into compliance with ...
Public Enterprises
Eskom on its 2015/16 Annual Report and pressing matters
31 Aug 2016
Eskom’s earnings for the year were R32 billion – an increase of 37.4% from the previous year. The entity had cost savings of R17.5 billion from the implemented cost-cutting measures and this was achieved against the target of R13.4 billion. Eskom received a R23 billion equity injection from government and ...
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 ...