Durban - The KwaZulu-Natal Department of Employment and Labour said there are some agricultural sector employers in the province who are contravening labour laws.
This was revealed by the department during a joint Parliamentary Portfolio Committees’ stakeholder engagement session in the Amajuba District Municipality on Friday.
The department’s chief inspector in KZN, Edward Khambula, presented statistical findings on the department’s farm inspections conducted in 2021/2022 and the first quarter of the 2022/2023 financial year in the province, to the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Agriculture, Rural Development and Land Reform and to the committee on Employment and Labour during the stakeholder engagement session in Newcastle.
Other stakeholders who attended the stakeholder engagement session included a member of the Ad Hoc Committee on Land Matters and the Legislature in KZN Sibhidla Saphetha and KZN SAPS Commissioner Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi.
Members from Legal Aid SA; SA Human Rights Commission; KwaZulu-Natal Agricultural Union (Kwanalu); local leadership of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) and several community organisations also attended.
The department’s inspectors visited almost 2000 farms in the 2021/2022 financial year to see if labour laws are being adhered to.
It was revealed that a total of 23% of non-compliance by employers in the agriculture sector in KZN have been recorded in respect of the several labour laws the Basic...
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