... for December 2018. Before the President signed off the legislation, this amendment would not have been necessary, it was corrected timeously, and an enormous amount of expenditure would have been avoided. With the advent of the implementation of the national minimum wage in 2019, the trade union movements and in particular the Congress of SA Trade Unions, Cosatu, started to scream jobs bloodbath. The trade unions were hellbent on the screaming that the national minimum wage