Tag: Prof Seekings

National minimum wage: Doubling sectoral minimums?

by GilesFiles | Dec 10, 2015 | ILO Conventions, Reforms required | 0 |

Professors Nattrass and Seekings have warned about the serious consequences of introducing an unrealistic minimum wage in South Africa. In particular the International Labour Organisation (ILO) stresses that policy-makers...

Inequality: Create more jobs (Prof Seekings)

by GilesFiles | Jul 31, 2014 | Discrimination (LRL 11), Employ Equity (LRL 12), ERelations (LRL 1), Insights, Labour Relations, philosophy / economics, Topics, Work Science Institute | 0 |

In the opinion of Professor Jeremy Seekings, the Director of the Centre for Social Science Research at the University of Cape Town, ‘every study in South Africa finds that real wage increases reduce the demand for labour’ and...