The Bill, which was passed on Thursday after a five-hour debate, will fundamentally alter the employer-employee relationship and undermine workers’ rights. Job security, retrenchment benefits and other rights taken for granted now will now be up in the air. Labour will increasingly be outsourced with little protection from the real employers, the factory owners.But when it comes to the crunch – protecting the rights of the workers in the employer-employee relationship – we know whose side the government takes.
The Bill, which was passed on Thursday after a five-hour debate, will fundamentally alter the employer-employee relationship and undermine workers’ rights. Job security, retrenchment benefits and other rights taken for granted now will now be up in the air. Labour will increasingly be outsourced with little protection from the real employers, the factory owners.But when it comes to the crunch – protecting the rights of the workers in the employer-employee relationship – we know whose side the government takes.
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