The dominance of foreign workers in some sectors of the economy is deeply worrying to many, but the proposed way of dealing with it will not get to grips with the real issues
Dominance of foreign workers in some sectors of economy worries many, but the proposed way of dealing with it will not get to grips with the real issuesPlans are afoot to introduce quotas for South Africans in certain sectors of the economy where foreign employees dominate.
The minister said it was well known that employers preferred to hire foreign nationals. In some cases, this had to do with skills, but in other cases it was a matter of exploiting cheap labour. Then one has to ask why employers in these sectors prefer to employ foreign nationals. Nxesi is probably right when he says this could be a question of skills. It is probably also the case for example in agriculture that foreign-national workers are prepared to work for lower wages. But then rather than imposing quotas, there is the national minimum wage legislation that should be applied.
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