Placido Hilukilwa A NEW minimum wage for construction workers, agreed upon by the Metal and Allied Namibian Workers Union (MANWU) and the Construction Industries Federation (CIF) last year, was published in the Government Gazette (Number 8326) of 13 March and came into effect on the same day. The new minimum wage for the construction industry...
Labour, industrial relations and employment creation minister Utoni Nujoma says the ministry has submitted a proposal for the long-awaited national minimum wage (NMW) of N$18 per hour to the Labour Advisory Council. Speaking at the Namibian Food and Allied Workers Union’s (Nafau) 11th elective congress at Rietfontein on Friday, Nujoma expressed optimism about completing the...
The Construction Industries Federation (CIF) and the Metal and Allied Namibian Workers Union (Manwu) have agreed on an increase in the minimum wage payable to workers in Namibia’s construction sector. This will come into force once the signed collective agreement between the CIF and Manwu is published in the Government Gazette. The increase in the...
The Construction Industries Federation and the Metal and Allied Namibian Workers Union have reached an agreement on a new minimum wage for specific categories of workers in the construction sector, entailing a 5% increase in the first year and an additional 4% increment in the second year. Here is CIF chief executive officer Bärbel Kirchner. The...
Martin Endjala The Construction Industries Federation of Namibia (CIF) has announced an increment of nine percent in minimum wages once the proposal is gazetted by the government through the Ministry of Labour, Industrial Relations and Employment Creation. CIF Chief Executive Officer Bärbel Kirchner, told this publication yesterday that they have reached an agreement with Metal...
The deputy governor of the Bank of Namibia (BoN), Ebson Uanguta, says Namibia is making reasonable strides towards promoting local ownership of banks. He says the BoN has set a legal framework reserving a minimum threshold stake of 25% in all commercial banks for locals. Speaking at a media event on Tuesday, Uanguta said some...
WORKERS’ unions have lashed out at the government over the slow implementation of a national minimum wage. Acting executive director of labour, industrial relations, and employment creation Lydia Indombo yesterday confirmed the ministry is yet to implement a minimum wage for workers. “However, an investigation into whether or not to introduce a national minimum wage...
The Ministry of Labour, Industrial Relations and Employment Creation says the new entry-level minimum wage for the agricultural sector announced by the Namibia Agricultural Labour Forum (Nalf) is only binding to members of parties to the collective agreement. In a statement issued yesterday by acting executive director Lydia Indombo, the ministry said the new minimum...
The Ministry of Labour, Industrial Relations and Employment Creation says the new entry-level minimum wage for the agricultural sector announced by the Namibia Agricultural Labour Forum (Nalf) is only binding to members of parties to the collective agreement. In a statement issued yesterday by acting executive director Lydia Indombo, the ministry said the new minimum...
The Ministry of Labour, Industrial Relations and Employment Creation has clarified a statement that was issued by the Agricultural Employers Association regarding the ‘New Minimum Wages’. Here’s Jeremia Namalenga the Ministry’s spokesperson. The post Ministry clarifies agricultural employers’ statement on ‘New Minimum Wages’ first appeared on Future Media. Source link