Your collective bargaining conference comes at a crucial time when the debate about decent work, increased job losses, poverty alleviation and employment creation has intensified and the workers agenda has once again taken centre-stage. That is why the African National Congress (ANC) government succeeded in building and maintaining a strong economy.
It was a moment of pleasure for the scores of domestic workers in Sea Point, Cape Town last night as they filled the local St James Church to capacity, exchanging views with Labour Minister Membathisi Mdladlana on various issues in their sector. Addressing them, Minister Mdladlana said the majority of the country's domestic workers were not sure of their rights and were as a result often victims of unfair labour practice from their individual employers.
In a sequel to last month's one day direct engagement with Stellenbosch domestic workers in the Western Cape, Labour Minister Membathisi Mdladlana tomorrow, Thursday, take time off his tight election campaign schedule to repeat the exercise ' this time at the invitation of Sea Point employees just outside Cape Town.
Labour Minister Membathisi Mdladlana cordially invites you to a media breakfast briefing that will precede the skills seminar at the Kopanong Hotel and Conference Centre in Benoni tomorrow (Friday). On 11 May 2006, the Minister of Labour hosted a roundtable discussion on the current debates affecting the labour market. There will also be a ministerial roundtable on international review of the South African labour market policies and the effect of climate change in the labour market.