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    Omanyano ovanhu koikundaneki yomalungula kashili paveta, Commisiner Sakaria takunghilile Veronika Haulenga

labour market

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Namibia

NEF concerned over National Minimum Wage rollout

Minister of Labour, Industrial Relations, and Employment Creation Utoni Nujoma   The Namibia Employers’ Federation (NEF) has expressed its views following the Ministry of Labour, Industrial Relations, and Employment Creation's decision to decline a request to phase in and defer the National Minimum Wage beyond 1 January 2025. The Ministry maintained that employers had enough time to prepare and criticised the NEF's proposal as unilateral. However, the NEF has said […]

todayJanuary 20, 2025 32

Business / Economics

Jobs in South Africa: the labour market is recovering from COVID – but unskilled and less educated people are still being left behind

    By Derek Yu, University of the Western Cape   For more than three decades the South African economy has had very high rates of joblessness. The country’s economy has been unable to create enough jobs for its growing army of workers. This has partly been because of the stagnant economic growth rate of only 1.7% during the 2010s (it was even lower at 0.9% in 2015-2019). Another factor […]

todayFebruary 20, 2024 16

South Africa

South Africa’s immigration proposals are based on false claims and poor logic – experts

By Loren B Landau, University of the Witwatersrand and Rebecca Walker, University of the Witwatersrand The South African government recently issued a long-awaited policy statement – called a White Paper – outlining proposed changes to the country’s asylum and immigration system. More than 20 years after its first post-apartheid immigration legislation in 1998, immigration remains a pressing concern. Getting this policy right could help with South Africa’s economic recovery, increase […]

todayNovember 27, 2023 9