The Minister of Employment and Labour is facing a crisis with his senior management and staff. By now it is well known to the public that both the biggest entities under the Department of Labour, namely the Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) and the Workmen’s Compensation Fund, missed their audit and were unable to give proper […]
The Department of Employment and Labour listed the critical professions affected the most by skills shortages in South Africa and, therefore, benefitting the most from skilled foreigners. This was revealed in a recent parliamentary Q&A, in which the Minister of Employment and Labour – Thulas Nxesi – was asked whether there are any critical skills […]
Employment and Labour Minister Thulas Nxesi has ruled out the removal of race from labour legislation or limiting the categories to black and white for now, saying the country’s Constitution and the Employment Equity Act were yet to be amended. Nxesi said this when responding to Ala-Jama-ah leader Ganief Hendricks’ written parliamentary question. His informal […]
Image source: Christina Morillo from Pexels The Employment Equity Amendment Act (EEAA) introduced significant changes to the Employment Equity Act (EEA), including the removal of the annual turnover threshold for designated employers and the empowerment of the Minister of Employment and Labour to set numerical employment equity targets for each national economic sector. Recap The Employment […]
Minister of Employment and Labour Thulas Nxesi Nxesi has urged businessman Mthunzi Mdwaba to bring evidence in court that he is implicated in the R500 million kickback scandal with other ministers. Mdwaba has named Nxesi, Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande, Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana, and ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula as four politicians who tried to solicit a […]
Do not retrench if operational circumstances do not merit it Section 213 of the LRA indicates that the reasons for retrenchment may be based on the economic, technological, structural or similar needs of the employer. It is necessary to look at each of these reasons more closely. Typically, economic reasons given for the need for […]
It would be safe to say that the national government has a role to play in job creation by creating an environment conducive for the business community to create jobs. The ANC-led government, unfortunately, has not created an environment conducive to job creation and the new government is going to have a long road to […]
South Africa commemorates National Disability Rights Awareness Month between 3 November and 3 December every year. According to the Department of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities, Disability Rights Awareness Month presents “an opportunity for all of us to remove these barriers and to improve the quality of life of people with disabilities through concrete […]
Minister of Employment and Labour, T.W. Nxesi invites the media to a briefing on the application to set aside the R5 Billion-rand agreement with Thuja. The Minister will brief the public and the media on the latest processes and actions that he has taken to set the agreement aside Since the outbreak of the story by the media […]
Employment and Labour Minister Thulas Nxesi has been fingered as a person of interest for the Hawks and the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) following an investigation into fresh allegations of corruption involving approximately R3-billion. This after a senior government official who has turned whistleblower drafted an explosive affidavit implicating Thulas Nxesi and his former director-general (DG), Thobile […]