NEASA’s approach towards remuneration of employees in the steel sector.

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NEASA’s APPROACH TOWARDS

remuneration of employees in the steel sector 

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Dear Steel Industry employer
 
There is much happening in the Industry. There are forces at work which attempt to undermine your right to decide for yourself which wages you can afford to pay.
 
This is NEASA’s approach towards this issue and this is what we fight for:

• the right for a business to establish its own wage, based on its own operational needs, in consultation with its own workers;
• a dispensation flexible enough to enable business to adapt to ever-changing market demands;
• a dispensation which allows for business autonomy and growth; and
• a dispensation which not only allows for a business to remain sustainable, but also allows for the employment of unskilled and inexperienced workers, giving them an opportunity in life. 

… and this is what we fight against:

• an unrealistic one-size-fits-all dispensation, agreed upon by monopolies situated in South Africa’s economic hubs;
• a hypocritical dispensation which many of the signatories themselves cannot afford; but which tolerates a scenario where those who cannot afford it, may vote in favour of extending the burden to others;
• a dispensation which entirely chooses to ignore the difference in the cost of doing business between a big and a small business, the cost of doing business in one of the economic hubs versus in a rural area, and wage expectations in rural areas versus the metropols;
• a dispensation which entirely chooses to ignore the difference in the cost of doing business between a big and a small business, the cost of doing business in one of the economic hubs versus in a rural area, and wage expectations in rural areas versus the metropols;
• a dispensation that presents an absolute barrier to entering the Steel Industry as an unskilled worker; and
• a dispensation which causes de-industrialisation and socio-economic instability, as a result of people stuck in a poverty-cesspool, without any hope for the future, and with the accompanying loss of self-respect.

This is how Numsa responds to NEASA’s approach: 

 

My message to the steel industry:

Regards

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For more information:
NEASA Media Department
media@neasa.co.za