22/11/2016
20 November 2016, Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa, announced recommendations on the National minimum wage. The proposal by the advisory panel was a minimum hourly wage of R20 (R3500 per month) but also proposes that from the date that a national minimum wage is legislated, there must be an 'adjustment period' of two years before the wage is finally implemented.
The Advisory Panel has proposed that the R20 threshold must remain unchanged for the duration of the adjustment period.
The two exceptions to this proposal are:-
1. Domestic workers, where a minimum wage of 75% of the proposed minimum wage is suggested, with a 3 (three) year ‘adjustment period’; and
2. Farmworkers, where it is suggested that a minimum wage of 90% of the proposed minimum wage must apply.
These adjustments will have to be made if the recommendations made by the Advisory Panel gets to Parliament.
