Employment and Labour Minister Thulas Nxesi has announced National Minimum Wage (NMW) figures for 2022 which will come into effect in March. Each ordinary hour worked has been increased from R21.69 to R23.19. This announcement is in terms of Section 6 (5) of the NMW Act, No 9 of 2018, to amend the NMW contained […]

Author: Kusile Consulting Services   As some of you will recall we wrote about the national minimum wage some time ago.  The background to this was that the minimum wage was intended on being implemented on 01 May 2018 (workers day) and this did not happen. On Friday 23 November 2018 President Cyril Ramaphosa signed the […]

Author: Kusile Consulting Services   Notice has been issued with regards to the recently released determinations made by the Minister of Labour.  The Minister of Labour has recently released the latest earnings threshold with effect from 01 March 2021 (the last change to the earnings threshold was in July 2014)  the earnings threshold for the purposes of […]

An interesting article was posted on the BusinessTech regarding an employee who refused to return to work during lockdown. Below is the article (copied from the original) as well as a link to the article on BusinessTech. The article refers to a case brought before the CCMA in which the applicant alleged unfair dismissal. The […]

Deloitte has released a 2021 Human Capital trends update, continuing the theme of ‘The social enterprise in a world disrupted’. However, their focus in this update is to lead the shift from survive to thrive. 2020 and the spread of COVID-19 forced organisations around the world to action radical new ways of working in order […]

Deloitte has released its 2020 Global Human Capital Trends titled ‘The social enterprise at work: Paradox as a path forward’. Not surprisingly it tackles the new way of work many companies and individuals have had to adapt to, as COVID-19 has shaken the world. The reality many of us have had to face is that […]