This is a collection of my press releases and where the media has reported on my involvement in Parliament or in my constituency - Sandton.  Click on the article title if you would like to post a comment.

Browsing Archive: January, 2011

Press Release: Draft labour laws: We must safeguard jobs, not destroy them

Posted by Ian Ollis on Monday, January 17, 2011,
Note to editors: The following statement was distributed this morning at a press conference held jointly by Ian Ollis MP, DA Shadow Minister of Labour, and George Boinamo MP, DA Shadow Deputy Minister of Labour. A copy of the document that was presented at the press conference is available for download here.

Statistics South Africa’s Quarterly Labour Force survey for the third quarter of 2010 records the fact that one in four South Africans (25.3%) are currently unemployed, using gov...
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Article: 'Mother of all battles in 2011' – Cosatu

Posted by Ian Ollis on Tuesday, January 4, 2011,
Farzana Rasool - ITWeb

Draft amendments to labour-related Acts, which could see the banning of labour broking, are set to cost SA millions of jobs, says the DA.

However, Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) has endorsed the amendments, saying labour broking is a new form of slavery and needs to be banned completely.

The Democratic Alliance (DA) says the amendments pander to interest groups that are only interested in protecting their members, and have no concern for the plight of the maj...


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