Engineering News reports that Employment and Labour Minister Thulas Nxesi will participate in a panel discussion on the 2020 metals and engineering (M&E) wage negotiations during the Metals and Engineering Indaba (Meindaba), which will be held in Sandton next month.  

National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) general secretary Irvin Jim, Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of Southern Africa (Seifsa) operations director Lucio Trentini, Solidarity general secretary Gideon du Plessis and Department of Employment and Labour chief director Thembikosi Mkalipi will also participate in the panel discussion.  The previous M&E wage negotiations, which took place in 2017, yielded positive results in the form of a three-year deal and no strike action.  Trentini noted in a statement issued on Monday that employers hoped for a similar outcome in the 2020 negotiations, but realised negotiations did not take place in a vacuum.  “A number of key sectors are currently involved in respective sector negotiations; outcomes in these sectors will set the scene for what we can expect in 2020,” he pointed out.

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