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South Africa: New Minimum Wage for Farmworkers to Be Announced
SAnews.gov.za, 30 January 2013
Labour Minister Mildred Oliphant is set to announce the much-awaited new sectoral determination for the farming sector on Monday. Read more »
Better Wage for South African Farmworkers?
The country's labour minister is expected to make an announcement soon on the new minimum wage for farmworkers that will hopefully put an end to the weeks of industrial action that’s affected production at wine farms in the Cape. Thousands of farmworkers have demanded a wage increase from R69 to R150 per day.
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The Building and Allied Workers Union of SA has encouraged Western Cape farmworkers to continue striking until their demands for a higher daily wage are met. Read more »
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While the farmworkers wage strike has gained support from union COSATU in most of the country's provinces, questions are being raised about the death of a farmworker who was ... Read more »
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While COSATU continue to pledge their support for the farm workers' strike for a living wage, public hearings for the review of farmworkers' minimum wages continue. Hearings began ... Read more »
