.....articled dated 15 August 2021..... Parliament demands oversight on DMRE energy plans…... Attempting to crack open...
Labour Articles
Marathon meetings on COIDA Bill
.....article dated 4 July..... COIDA Act extended to cover all vulnerable workers.... Two extensive days of...
Minister holds ground on Employment Equity Bill
....article dated 4 June 2021..... Minister to fix black empowerment targets Minister Thulas Nxesi, in...
Employment Equity Bill sets BEE targets
.....article July 26.... Minister gets tough on B-BBEE.... At the same time as Minister of Employment and Labour, Thulas Nxesi, tabled in Parliament the new Employment Equity (EE) Amendment Bill proposing that new BEE targets for business and...
DoH updates MPs on NHI
article July 15 2020...... Hopes for transversal tendering by 2025/26 ....Dr Gail Andrews, Chief Operations Officer at Department of Health (DoH), told Parliament that the department hopes to have a “public transversal contract” in place before...
B-BBEE included with Covid relief regs
Covid relief & BEE don’t mix, say MPs When the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (DTIC) were presenting their 2020/21 performance plan to Parliament and after stating that all Covid19 distress funding would be allocated using B-BBEE...
Home Affairs white paper appears govt meddling
White Paper re-focuses on immigration, security... Report issued to clients April end 2019..... Gathering a head of steam and running into trouble both at home and abroad, is (former) Minister Siyabonga Cwele’s Draft White Paper on Home Affairs,...
New Competition Bill invades business principles
Competition kill is not transformation, say critics Due to an idealogical theme imposed by the Minister of Economic Development, Ebrahim Patel, on the new Competition Amendment Bill, recently published for comment, South Africa can expect a...
Marine Spatial Bill targets ocean resources…
Bill to bring order to marine economy... November 2017 ParlyReport..... In the light of President Zuma’s emphasis in his recent speeches on oil and gas issues, it is important to couple this in terms of government policy with the tabling of the...
Parliament thrashes out debt relief Bill
Credit Regulator calls for defined debt relief... From November 2017 ParlyReport..... MacDonald Netshitenzhe, of Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), has told parliamentarians that his department in general endorses the call by the National...
DTI does flip flop on BEE codes
B-BBEE codes changed on "management control"... A lack of understanding of the effect of B-BBEE Codes on business and the industrial environment, despite a workshop on the subject, was demonstrated when the department of trade and industry (DTI)...
Protected Disclosures Act: More whistleblower cover
Act to cover workers and state employees... What was expected has now arrived in the form of an amending Bill to the Protected Disclosures Act, or “Whistleblowers Act”, which will draw contract workers, independent contractors, consultants and...
UIF brings in foreign workers
Changes to Unemployment Insurance Act with new Bill.... Nearly thirty changes are proposed to the Unemployment Insurance Act, governing the Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) in the form of the Unemployment Insurance Amendment Bill now tabled. Among...