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...
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