Unemployment fund, CCMA face jobs bloodbath - The Mail & Guardian

More than 100 000 workers face retrenchment under the Covid-19 lockdown, almost three times as many as last year, according to figures provided by the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration .

Minister of Employment and Labour Thulas Nxesi has warned that large-scale job losses are inevitable. With the government’s efforts to stem the tide of job cuts through the UIF’s Covid-19 benefit now at an end, another wave of redundancies is sure to land at the doorstep of the commission. “The commission is preparing for an increased caseload due to salary disputes, and increased requests for assistance through the Ters programme by companies in distress due to the restrictions on economic activity,” according to the supplementary budget.

Morajane said the CCMA’s core business, “expeditious dispute resolution”, will ultimately be affected by the cut, but that it was reviewing its operational model to improve efficiency. The CCMA is in the process of introducing web-based hearings to allow for socially distanced arbitrations. But Morajane told Parliament in May that it would need an estimated R56-million to upgrade its information and communications technology infrastructure.

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