Cosatu Protest Against labour brokering

Master Builders KwaZulu-Natal recently ran a news article entitled “Labour Law Reforms – The End of Labour Broking,” which was penned by the Association’s Executive director Brandon Abdinor and outlined the significant impact, these reforms will have on the way the building industry currently operates.

In Today’s Newspaper Headlines…….

The International Trade Union Confederation, have organised protests/pickets to take place across the country around lunch time today (Wednesday 7 October 2009).

In order to curb abuse of workers, both the DA and Cope have recommended that the labour broking market be answerable to a self-regulatory board, Cosatu have rejected this proposal and is calling for an outright ban.

"Cosatu totally agrees with Labour Minister Membathisi Mdladlana's description of labour broking as 'a form of human trafficking, and an extreme form of free market capitalism which reduces workers to commodities that can be traded for profit as if they were meat or vegetables'."

"It is an industry that exists precisely so that client companies can dodge the existing labour laws and regulations, and hand over responsibility for the fate of their workers to an outside company, the labour broker.

"If the industry wanted to regulate itself, as it requests, why has it not done so already? Because their whole reason for existence is to promote an unregulated labour market."

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