Posted by Ian Ollis on Sunday, February 6, 2011,
The Daily Maverick - 21 January 2011
When my ANC colleagues in Parliament told me
Cosatu wanted my head on a plate, I had genuine problems understanding
the reason they’re so upset. Turns out I’m just one of those bloody
slave-trading labour brokers.
Truth is, I had never really met a labour broker,
or in fact realised the intricacies of the difference between them and
regular employment agencies. All that changed when the DA nominated me
to serve on th... Continue reading ...
Posted by Ian Ollis on Wednesday, August 11, 2010,
10 August 2010 - Source: Caiphus Kgosana, Times Live
A former Commission for Conciliation Mediation and Arbitration employee has made startling allegations of gross financial mismanagement and unfair labour practices at the body responsible for resolving labour disputes.
Mothibedi Mokoena, formerly of the CCMA audit unit, told Parliament's
labour portfolio committee yesterday that he and two colleagues were
fired after alerting labour director-general Jimmy Manyi to alleged rot
at the...
Posted by Ian Ollis on Thursday, July 22, 2010,
Press Release:
The shocking state of labour centers throughout the country was evident as members of the parliamentary committee on labour visited centres in four provinces during the month of May. There is evidence of gross mismanagement and the effects of typical ANC style centralization of the administration, leading to inertia and collapse of some services.
The PC on Labour recently visited labour centres in four provinces including the following locations:
Rustenburg, Brits, Kwamhlush... Continue reading ...
Posted by Ian Ollis on Thursday, July 22, 2010,
Joint statement by Andrew Louw MP, DA Shadow Minister of Labour and Ian
Ollis MP, DA Shadow Deputy Minister of Labour
DA reveals scathing report hidden from Parliament: R85-million cost
likely to be incurred as a consequence of Labour Department bungling
The Democratic Alliance (DA) can today release publicly a confidential
report compiled by auditing firm KPMG, into the gross mismanagement of
the Department of Labour in the handling of the R1.7-billion Siemens IT
contract. The rep... Continue reading ...
Posted by Ian Ollis on Monday, May 17, 2010,
Press Release: 5 May 2010
The Labour Department must explain
what happened to R1-billion in Compensation Fund payouts, after a
presentation to the Parliamentary Labour Committee this week revealed an
inexplicable R1-billion shortfall in compensation paid out to injured
workers in this last financial year. During
2009/10 there has been a dramatic decline in payouts – from 150,090,
amounting to R2,9 billion in 2008/09, to 87,800, amounting to R1,9
billion in 2009/10. What is particularl... Continue reading ...
Posted by Ian Ollis on Monday, May 17, 2010,
Press Release: 20 April 2010
The
refusal by Director General (DG) of Labour, Jimmy Manyi, to publicly
apologise before Parliament for his attempt to inflate the Department’s
budget by R 1 billion must be met by action from the Minister. The DA
revealed that Manyi had attempted to inflate the budget of the
department, in order to offer a post facto legitimate reason for
requesting the additional funding in the first place. Upon hearing this,
the Minister of Labour, Membathisi Mdladlana... Continue reading ...
Posted by Ian Ollis on Thursday, April 15, 2010,
A speech I gave in parliament on the 13 April 2010
Honourable Speaker, Honourable members.
Are we helping South Africa’s workers and the unemployed? When we look
at how the labour department is performing, there is some good, some bad
and some really ugly.
This year, the good is the work of the Unemployment Fund, the CCMA and
Nedlac. They are performing their functions well and we get very little
by
way of complaints about their service generally. To them, the DA says:
“Well done”.
... Continue reading ...
Posted by Ian Ollis on Tuesday, March 30, 2010,
Press Release: 4 March 2010, Ian Ollis The threat
by Cosatu to “take to the streets” in support of its demand to ban
labour brokers is a clear sign that the trade union has no interest in
the real concerns of workers and the unemployed – if this had been the
case, then Cosatu would have engaged on the topic of labour brokers and
how avert abuse at the fringes of the industry. Rather, they continue to
demand an outright ban on the industry, which their own research before
Parliamen...
Posted by Ian Ollis on Tuesday, March 30, 2010,
Press Release: 3 March 2010
In a
remarkable attempt to rewrite history, Labour Minister Membathisi
Mdladlana’s spokesperson Mzobanzi Jikazana has now attempted to claim
that Minister Mdladlana never called for labour broking to be banned. Mr.
Jikazana is being quoted as saying in this morning’s press: “Despite
what the media may say, the minister has never once used the word ‘ban’.
He has only said that he wants to ‘deal with’ the issue of labour
brokers, and if necessary ... Continue reading ...
Posted by Ian Ollis on Thursday, February 25, 2010,
Press Release: 19 February 2010 The Director General of Labour Jimmy Manyi has admitted to the Portfolio Committee on Labour that the Training Layoff Scheme has
trained, or is in the process of training, only 3 000 retrenched
workers from five companies. The Training Layoff Scheme was presented
to the public amidst much fanfare by the ANC government, who presented
it as their “rescue plan”, but this admission demonstrates the true
extent of its failure. With R2.4 billion allocated specific... Continue reading ...
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