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Minimum Wage Commission Recommends 20% Boost for Domestic Workers

SOUTH AFRICA

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  • National minimum wage commission recommends 20% increase for domestic workers in 2022 to align with 100% of the national minimum wage (vs 88% in 2021).
    • This amounts to a CPI+1% raise in 2022 to R23/hr vs R19.09 in 2021. Unions continue to argue that this is below the upper bound food poverty line for an average size family.
  • Zuma appeal shows signs of success after judge Elias Motojane ruled that there was a possibility that another court could come to a different verdict on his medical parole.
    • Motojane referred to Zuma twice as an “elderly person with comorbidities” who “deserves compassion and empathy”
  • SA reports 15,424 new covid cases & 35 deaths. KZN & The western cape lead case numbers with Gauteng falling from second to third place in case numbers as experts point to a 4th wave peak.
MNI London Bureau | +44 020-3983-7894 | murray.nichol@marketnews.com
MNI London Bureau | +44 020-3983-7894 | murray.nichol@marketnews.com

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