3. Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) - All submissions
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Item How have Temporary Employment Services (TES) in South Africa Responded to the Labour Relations Amendment Act’s Regulation of Labour Brokers? a study of assign case(2019) Nkosi, Joshua MalambuleThis report focuses on one aspect of the 2014 Labour Relations Act Amendments. The Act was introduced after many calls by scholars and the labour movement alike to address, inter alia, the exploitation of workers by Temporary Employment Services (TES), popularly known as labour brokers (as will be interchangeably used in this research report), and to ban TES.Item South Africa's youth unemployment and the employment tax incentive: an empirical re-evaluation(2017) Moeletsi, TlhalefangOur paper uses a Difference-in-Difference estimator to investigate the impacts of the Employment Tax Incentive after the first year of implementation. We use birth cohort bands to track the difference in employment probabilities of subgroups of targeted workers and untargeted workers. We find evidence of improvements in the employment prospects of young workers in the region of 2 percentage points. Our results were largest for African males. We then perform a placebo and find no evidence that differences in employment probabilities of younger workers and older workers were present before implementation. Possible deadweight loss, displacement and measurement effects limit the extent to which we can attribute changes in employment probabilities to evidence that “new” jobs were “created” by the programmeItem A critical analysis of the employment tax incentive(2018) Rohhamlal, NatashaThe Employment Tax Incentive (‘ETI’) was at the time of introduction in 2013 seen to be a temporary but effective measure to address the high rate of youth unemployment in South Africa. The ETI provides employers with a Pay-As-You-Earn tax credit for those qualifying employees, it employed. The ETI was then seen as one of many incentives to be rolled out which would improve the youth unemployment rate as part of Government’s National Development Plan. This study is a critical analysis of the ETI regime and includes an analysis of certain components of the ETI legislation which could lead to inadvertent negative results. In addition, this report also looks at a scheme created within the industry that makes use of the ETI benefit but does not create employment. Finally, this report concludes on the effectiveness of the ETI in its current form and also provides certain recommendations to the legislature that could make the ETI more effective.Item Precarious workers, the casual workers' advice office and the 2014 labour relations act amendments(2017) Lenka, LefaThe contemporary precariousness of workers in South Africa can be understood from the historical development of South African labour regulations and policies. The acceleration of globalisation in the 1970s and the 1980s posed the labour movement with a challenge of flexible labour that rendered many workers precarious. Labour broking/Temporary Employment Services, part-time and contract work became the central strategy of capital rejuvenating itself and to avoid costs and legislation. This forced workers to engage in other forms of struggles to fight their precarious status as they found themselves on the periphery of the labour movement and legislative protection. In 2012 the government introduced the Labour Relations Bill that came to take effect in 2015 as the Labour Relations Act Amendment of 2014 to protect these groups of workers against the super-exploitative practices of flexible labour. This thesis explores the struggles of precarious workers at (and the role of) the Casual Workers’ Advice Office (CWAO) and self-organisation of workers in contemporary South Africa following the 2014 Labour Relations Amendments Act. The dissertation provides cases and notes struggles of workers at CWAO who sought to access their rights in terms of the LRA Amendments of 2014. It argues that the pursuit of legal struggles of various forms of precarious workers - TES, part-time and contract workers was important, but central to their victories was their own self-organisation, labour education and the role CWAO and David Cartwright Attorneys played in their struggles.Item Labour legislation and performance among small enterprises in the Gauteng province of South Africa(2016) Okharedia, Akhabue AnthonyThe principal aim of this study is to analyse how the three (3) labour legislations, namely, (a) the Labour Relations Act 66 of 1995, (b) the Basic Conditions of Employment Act 75 of 1997 and (c) the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998 influence the growth, management and governance of small enterprises in Gauteng Province of South Africa. This research also investigates if the complete exclusion, selective exclusion or parallel application of the above three labour legislations will help in the management, growth and good governance of small enterprises in Gauteng Province. In addition to the above issues, this research also investigates how disputes are resolved in small enterprises. Furthermore, this research investigates the issue of organisational rights in small enterprises.To investigate all the above issues, the researcher used both qualitative and quantitative research techniques and both techniques were quite useful in the data analysis.The inference that was drawn from the data analysis is that application of the three (3) labour legislations in terms of complete exclusion, selective exclusion and parallel application of the three labour legislations is very important for the growth, management and good governance of small enterprises and this is fully discussed in the thesis. The analysis of the research data indicates that small enterprises cannot benefit from the organisational rights entrenched in the Labour Relation Act of 1995 and the reasons for this are discussed in the thesis. This research also found that small enterprises cannot resolve their disputes efficiently through the current process of dispute resolution as stipulated in Section 135 of the LRA. The reasons why small enterprises find it difficult to follow the process is discussed in the thesis. The recommendations in this thesis, attempt to offer solutions to the identified problems.