The article reports on the 8.5% wage increase above inflation offered by BHP Billiton to striking workers at the Hillside aluminium smelter in South Africa during a meeting on December 8, 2010. Mbuso Ngubane, regional secretary of the National Union of Metalworkers (Numsa) argues that the wage...
The workers will receive a 7 percent increase in wage as well as an increase in housing allowances, which will cost Eskom an extra more than 1 billion South African rands (about 60 million U.S. dollars) over the one-year period, it said. The main union at Eskom, the National Union o...
Trade unions said the government's failure to take seriously these negotiations at a time when workers are already victims of an increase of value added tax (VAT) and the fuel levy will feed the rising tensions. The last time South Africa's public service workers went on strike was in 2010...
Relative to levels evident on the month prior to a wage floor hike, poverty falls by 3.8% and 4% three and nine months after an increase, respectively, when treatment effects are averaged over all three measures of poverty. In contrast, Alternative controls Besides being Brazil’s main ...
The ten per cent rise in the minimum wage planned for March 2005 could reduce employment by 3.3 per cent in the wine industry and 5.9 per cent in the table grape industry, but it is more likely that the wage increase will be offset against fewer benefits. The average expected impact is ...
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The ten per cent rise in the minimum wage planned for March 2005 could reduce employment by 3.3 per cent in the wine industry and 5.9 per cent in the table grape industry, but it is more likely that the wage increase will be offset against fewer benefits. The average expected impact is ...
(an average of 1.0% over the past 10 years) as well as the estimated real GDP growth (around 1%). The wage increase rate has been set at 2.5%, which is obtained from the real wage increase rate (1.0%) pl 实际工资增量率 (增加工资率减价格增量率) 被设置了在1.0%根据通过数据 (每平均...
In order to assess whether the changes experienced by workers in the sectors analysed were unique to those sectors, a unique control group is identified for each sector.We find some evidence of a significant increase in real hourly wages in the post-law period in four of the five sectors ...
The results suggest a significant reduction in employment in Agriculture from the minimum wage, an increase in wages on average, no significant change in hours worked and a sharp rise in non-wage compliance. Acknowledgements: The research, from which this paper emanates, was funded by the ...