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National Minimum Wage Symposium

When: Tuesday, 02 February 2016 - Tuesday, 02 February 2016
Where: Braamfontein Campus West
Wits Club
Start time:9:00
Enquiries:

nmw.csid@wits.co.za or 011 717 8216
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Sign up at www.nationalminimumwage.co.za
Cost: No cost and lunch and refreshments will be provided.

The National Minimum Wage Research Initiative (NMW-RI) at Wits presents its two-day National Symposium on 2 and 3 February 2016.

The Symposium will profile the research of the NMW-RI, as well as draw together important international and local experts. Policy makers; civil society, union and business leaders; academics; and the press are expected to attend.

International experts include:

  • Alan Manning, Professor, London School of Economics (LSE), United Kingdom
  • Uma Rani, International Labour Organisation
  • Roxana Maurizio, UNGS, Argentina
  • Shanmugam Thiagarajan, National Wage Council, Malaysia
  • Asghar Adelzadeh, Applied Development Research Solutions

Panels will discuss:

  • Minimum wages and employment
  • The impact of a national minimum wage on poverty and inequality
  • The South African labour market
  • International case studies
  • The consequences of a national minimum wage in South Africa – outcomes from modelling exercises

Policy sessions will consider:

  • Designing national minimum wage to transform the wage structure
  • A national minimum wage that business can implement: exclusions, exemptions and incentives
  • Institutional design: who sets, monitors and enforces a NMW?
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