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Comparative analysis of temporary employment services in South Africa, particularly labour brokers

Magister Philosophiae - MPhil / In the early 1990s, South Africa (SA) entered its democratic transition, which created expectations
of a dramatic turnaround in the country’s economy.1 The readmission of SA to the global arena
introduced the economy to concepts such as globalisation. Globalisation came with some
implications and impact that have been widely debated.2 The democratic transition brought a
significant change to the job spectrum, generating an increase in Temporary Employment Service
(TES) and a decrease in permanent employment.3
The reasons leading to this increase are that subcontracting is beneficial to employers in that this
process results in the transferral of social risks to the subcontractor, reducing direct exposure to
labour legislation.4 Regarding the pertinence of this issue, the Congress of South African Trade
Unions (COSATU), the biggest union federation in the country, and the ruling party, the African
National Congress (ANC), have long called for the elimination of labour brokers.5 COSATU, in
its presentation to the Portfolio Committee on Labour in 2009, argued that labour brokers act as
intermediaries to access jobs that allegedly exist, and which in many cases would have existed
previously as permanent full time jobs.6

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:uwc/oai:etd.uwc.ac.za:11394/7382
Date January 2020
CreatorsMadiehe, Wellington Thabo
ContributorsHuysamen, E
PublisherUniversity of the Western Cape
Source SetsSouth African National ETD Portal
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
RightsUniversity of the Western Cape

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