This news aggregator site highlights South African labour news from a wide range of internet and print sources. Each posting has a synopsis of the source article, together with a link or reference to the original. Postings cover the range of labour related matters from industrial relations to generalist human resources.
ANA reports that Parliament has finally passed an amendment to the National Minimum Wage Act after a technical error was picked up in the initial legislation.
The amendment bill was passed during the National Assembly's final plenary sitting of the fifth parliamentary term on Wednesday afternoon. The National Minimum Wage Bill aims to amend the National Minimum Wage Act of 2018, which set a mandatory national minimum wage of R20 for each ordinary hour worked. President Cyril Ramaphosa signed the 2018 enactment into law in November last year and it came into effect on 1 January 2019. But after an error backdating the implementation of the legislation to May 2017 was revealed, the parliamentary portfolio committee on labour resolved to amend the legislation, notwithstanding which its implementation was not halted. The 2019 Bill will now be referred to the National Council of Provinces for concurrence.
- The original of this short report is at Independent News
- See Letter to the Editor, State should pay minimum wage too, at BusinessLive
Get other news reports at the SA Labour News home page