{"id":303950,"date":"2021-05-08T18:19:27","date_gmt":"2021-05-08T16:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=303950"},"modified":"2021-05-08T18:19:30","modified_gmt":"2021-05-08T16:19:30","slug":"labour-issues-are-costing-the-state-dearly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=303950","title":{"rendered":"Labour issues are costing the state dearly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Business Reporter<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Labour, Industrial Relations and Employment Creation has facilitated payments amounting to N$ 1 806 124.55 on behalf of employees on due amounts owed to them by their respective employers during the 2020\/21 financial year<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The payments emanated from 5430 labour complaints lodged by affected employees and show an increase of 966 complaints from the 2019\/2020 financial year.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The complaints were mostly lodged by employees whose basic conditions of employment as stipulated in the labour act were contravened by their respective employers.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>These contraventions ranged from non-payment of remuneration, unlawful deductions, unpaid overtime and severance payment among others.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bro\u2013Matthew Shinguadja, the executive director of the labour ministry stated that although the ministry managed to successfully resolve 4176 (77%) of the registered labour complaints, it&#8217;s still seized with a challenge of some employers who are untraceable due to various reasons.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnresolved labour complaints are referred as labour disputes to the labour commissioner for conciliation or arbitration, adding to labour issues that have been lodged directly with the labour commissioner. Employers are employees are urged to solve labour issues amicably and source for advice from the ministry to avoid labour disputes.\u2019 Shinguadja stated.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Labour-issues-are-costing-the-state-dearly.jpg\" alt=\"issues Ministry Labour Industrial Relations Employment Creation\" class=\"wp-image-303945\" srcset=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Labour-issues-are-costing-the-state-dearly.jpg 300w, https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Labour-issues-are-costing-the-state-dearly.jpg 274w, https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Labour-issues-are-costing-the-state-dearly.jpg 80w, https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Labour-issues-are-costing-the-state-dearly.jpg 130w, https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Labour-issues-are-costing-the-state-dearly.jpg 359w, https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Labour-issues-are-costing-the-state-dearly.jpg 85w, https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Labour-issues-are-costing-the-state-dearly.jpg 546w, https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Labour-issues-are-costing-the-state-dearly.jpg 165w, https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Labour-issues-are-costing-the-state-dearly.jpg 347w, https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Labour-issues-are-costing-the-state-dearly.jpg 112w, https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Labour-issues-are-costing-the-state-dearly.jpg 179w, https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Labour-issues-are-costing-the-state-dearly.jpg 170w, https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Labour-issues-are-costing-the-state-dearly.jpg 81w, https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Labour-issues-are-costing-the-state-dearly.jpg 765w, https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Labour-issues-are-costing-the-state-dearly.jpg 450w, https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Labour-issues-are-costing-the-state-dearly.jpg 272w, https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Labour-issues-are-costing-the-state-dearly.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\"><!-- MetaSlider 271797 not found --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business Reporter \u00a0 The Ministry of Labour, Industrial Relations and Employment Creation has facilitated payments amounting to N$ 1 806 124.55 on behalf of employees on due amounts owed to them by their respective employers during the 2020\/21 financial year \u00a0 The payments emanated from 5430 labour complaints lodged by affected employees and show an &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":303945,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - 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