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Time is running out for submission of inputs for the review of the National Minimum Wage in 2022. Photo: Supplied/Food For Mzansi

ICYMI: It’s D-Day for input on farmworker minimum wage

by Duncan Masiwa

14th Jan 2022

Today is your last chance to give input about the proposed hike in the national minimum wage, which will benefit the lowest-paid farmworkers. And a Free State school is receiving ...

The proposed minimum wage increase will hardly make a difference in the affordability of basic needs, employee representatives say. Photo: Supplied/Food For Mzansi

Wage increase: ‘farmers need enabling environment’

by Tiisetso Manoko

30th Dec 2021

Can farming businesses afford a wage increase in 2022? Can farmworkers afford basic living on R1.31 more per hour? The annual minimum wage increase in Mzansi has once again sparked ...

About 20 people picketed on Olieboom Road at the Philippi Horticultural Area in the Western Cape last week. Photo: Mary-Anne Gontsana/GroundUp

Employment dispute over horticulture area clean-up

by GroundUp

6th Dec 2021

A dispute about a cleaning project at the Philippi Horticultural Area has broken out between a few dozen workers and Stellenbosch University’s Water Institute last week. The university says funding ...

More job losses were recorded in South Africa in the last corner and industry players fear farmworkers could be next when a new minimum wage is implemented in 2022. Photo: Supplied/Food For Mzansi

Minimum wage: ‘The poorest of the poor will suffer’

by Duncan Masiwa

16th Mar 2021

The poorest of the poor are going to suffer, insists farmers who have implemented the new minimum wage for farmworkers. Many fear that the new wage might eventually force them ...

Lay-offs, mechanisation on the cards after wage hike

by Duncan Masiwa

19th Feb 2021

Eight out of every ten farmers surveyed by Agri SA foresee laying off workers to keep within their wages budget. Labour costs are set to increase drastically over farmers’ turnover ...

Farm workers pictured earlier in the eastern Free State. Photo: PLAAS.org.za

TLU SA rejects wage increase for ‘lowest-paid labourers’

by Staff Reporter

15th Dec 2020

While the National Minimum Wage Commission believes the earnings of farm workers as the lowest-paid labourers should be adjusted, TLU SA now calls on government to completely set aside the ...

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