High minimum wages hinder efforts to cut unemployment

SA's labour market policies do not seek to solve the problems of what should be its primary constituency; the millions of people without jobs desperately lining up for meagre state support at the hands of an economy deaf to their plight, writes Isaah Mhlanga

30 January 2022 - 00:00

By Isaah Mhlanga

SA's labour market policies do not seek to solve the problems of what should be its primary constituency; the millions of people without jobs desperately lining up for meagre state support at the hands of an economy deaf to their plight.

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