Thousands of seasonal workers to get unemployment relief
Seasonal workers would battle during off-season to get their unemployment relief. An outreach programme by the labour department’s UIF unit has changed that.
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Victims of unscrupulous lawyer hope to find justice
There is a growing list of complaints against an advocate, Viquelin-Kim Johnson.
Dismissed workers thrown deeper into poverty
The workers say that they now live in poverty after they asked for what is due to them and for better working conditions.
Domestic workers’ union says the proposed minimum wage is too little
Whilst delivering his speech on the proposed minimum wage of R3,500 a month, Deputy President, Cyril Ramaphosa said that the national minimum wage was aimed at reducing income poverty and inequality. The advisory panel which was looking into the the issue proposed that wages in the domestic work sector should be set at 75% of the proposed national minimum wage. In a report released in June by The National Minimum Wage Research Initiative of the School of Economic and Business Sciences at the University of Witwatersrand, 90% of domestic workers earn less than R3,120 a month.
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