The Mercury reports that the Department of Employment and Labour (DEL) has urged domestic workers to report employers not complying with the national minimum wage (NMW).
Caroline Kwetepane, deputy director in advocacy and stakeholder relations, called on domestic workers who continued to be paid below the NMW to report such violations at the department’s offices. Kwetepane said three years since the introduction of the NMW, employers were still exploiting and violating the law by underpaying domestic workers. She went on to indicate: “The NMW is the amount payable for the ordinary hours of work and does not include payment of allowances (such as transport, tools, food or accommodation), payments in kind (board or lodging), tips, bonuses and gifts.” According to Kwetepane, in addition to being underpaid, domestic workers were still not given contracts of employment, not handed payslips, not registered for injuries on duty, not registered for Unemployment Insurance Fund benefits and not granted extended leave benefits among other violations. DEL Minister Thulas Nxesi announced earlier this year that the NMW had been reviewed and adjusted from R21.69 (2021) to R23.19 for each ordinary hour worked for the year 2022 with effect from 1 March.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Khethukuthula Xulu at The Mercury
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