ILO: The International Labour
Organisation (ILO) believes labour market regulations are not too rigid
in South Africa and cannot be blamed for high unemployment.
According to Business Day, in an
interview last week ILO South African director, Vic van Vuuren
attributed unemployment to fragile economic conditions, skills
mismatches and problems with education.He was speaking after the African
Development Bank claimed that labour regulations were "excessively
rigid" and contributed to youth unemployment.
South Africa's unemployment rate was almost 25 percent, which equated
to almost four-and-a-half million people out of work. Van Vuuren
said: "When we look at our labour laws and we analyse them and compare
them to other best-practice countries, I don't think we have a rigid
labour market that is preventing youth employment or employment in
general".However, the newspaper reported that Adcorp labour analyst
Loane Sharp disagreed, and said the World Economic Forum rated South
Africa's labour regulation as one of the world's worst.
Amendment Bills to the Labour Relations and the Basic Conditions of
Employment Acts are being considered by Parliament's portfolio committee
on labour. "They're adding more regulation and what we need is less
regulation.... [The amendments] are even more restrictive than the
Labour Relations Act of the mid-1990s," Sharp said.According to Business
Day, Business Unity SA claimed the amendments, which could grant
temporary workers equal rights to permanent staff, could lead to 215,150
job losses.
Source: http://www.mmegi.bw
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