Tag: unemployed
Unemployed citizens work: Need empowerment
Yesterday the Director of the Free Market Foundation, Eustace Davie, called upon President Cyril Ramaphosa to empower unemployed citizens and set them free by allowing them to agree their own contractual terms and grant them job...
Read MoreEconomic inclusion: Unemployed not represented by unions
“That speech [SONA] made it clear that the ANC’s “tripartite alliance” with COSATU and the South African Communist Party no longer takes precedence over the need to attract investment”. “That speech was remarkable not for what...
Read MoreIncome inequality: What about the unemployed?
“Some inequality matters; some doesn’t matter, except to the envious. Income inequality doesn’t matter. The most important inequality is between people, like me, who have enough for a happy life, and those who haven’t. ...
Read MoreLabour market reform: Good, bad and ugly
Frans Rautenbach, a practising advocate, skilled and experienced in employment law and industrial relations, has drawn attention to issues that need very serious consideration. THE Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu)...
Read MoreLabour Market: Create work for unemployed
“With jobs comes dignity. With dignity comes participation. And from participation emerges prosperity for all”.
Read MoreWorkers and freedom of impediments
Since 1995 South Africa has grown at less than half the rate needed to tackle the unemployment crisis. The unemployed are on the other side of ‘Hadrian’s Wall’, they are not part of the bargaining process over labour policy...
Read MoreFalse narrative unions: Feeds potential ruin
BusinessDay today has published, under the above title, an interesting opinion of Michael Kransdorff, who studies at the Harvard Kennedy School in Cambridge Massachusetts, & Marian Tupy, a policy analyst at the Cato...
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