Should the government consider placing the decisions regarding wages squarely in the hands of job seekers, removing the restrictions of labour laws and minimum wages? unchainthechild thinks they should.
Unemployed painters, plumbers and tilers hope to get a job from people shopping at a hardware store in Johannesburg. Should labour laws be scrapped to allow workers to negotiate their own employment contracts and wages?Mass unemployment in South Africa has far-reaching socio-economic ramifications, the effects of which are felt by almost half of the country's population, if not more.
The US government made a similar error when it imposed the same minimum wage on American Samoa as was being paid on the US mainland. Alternatively, the department should consider placing the decisions regarding wages squarely in the hands of job seekers. On the same issue, he said: The people are deprived of work opportunities “by monopolies of organised groups of workers, ‘unions’, which create an artificial scarcity of their kind of work by preventing those willing to do such work for a lower wage from doing so.”
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