EWN reports that Parliament's portfolio committee on labour has moved to correct a technical error in the National Minimum Wage Act, which came into effect on 1 January.  

It has introduced an amendment to the act to fix a cross-referencing mistake that has bearing on workers challenging instances where benefits or working conditions were unilaterally changed in reaction to the new law.  The protection was to have been backdated to 1 May 2017, but was accidentally omitted in the final version of the act signed into law by President Cyril Ramaphosa.  Michael Bagraim of the Democratic Alliance (DA) slammed the necessity for the amendment as gross negligence on the part of the committee because he had pointed out the error last year.  The amendment will not have an effect on the implementation of the minimum wage rate as determined in terms of the Act.

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