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Original Post Date: 2003-11-28 Posted By: Jan
From the News Archives of: WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org
Date & Time Posted: 11/28/2003 6:30:13 AM
S.Africa: 57,000 Jobs Lost
Johannesburg – The formal non-agricultural sector shed about 57 000 employees between March and June this year, data released by Statistics SA yesterday showed.
At the same time, gross earnings paid to employees reflected a 3 percent increase.
According to the June 2003 Survey of Employment Earnings, about 6.4 million people were employed in the formal non agricultural business sector at the end of June.
According to official Stats SA data, this reflected a net decrease of about 57 000 jobs between March and June.
The findings attributed the decline to job losses in the construction industry, which accounted for 37 000; the financial, insurance, real estate and business services industry, which shed an estimated 30 000 jobs; and the manufacturing industry, which lost 20 000 jobs.
A thousand jobs were lost in the electricity, gas and water supply industry, and 14 000 in the community, social and personal services sector.
But the losses were offset by increased employment in the wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles, motorcycles and personal and household goods; and the hotel and restaurant industry, which added 32 000 jobs.
The mining and quarrying industry employed another 9 000 people, while the transport, storage and communication industry gained 4 000 employees.
Between 1995 and 2002, the number of people employed grew by 1.6 million. But the unemployed also grew by 2.4 million because many more people were seeking work. While many unskilled workers were unemployed, there were shortages of skilled workers in many sectors.
Andrew Levy, an employment relations adviser, said:
“You have to be careful of short-term moves of employment levels.”
“There is a very strong trend to replace permanent full-time employees with outsourced arrangements of one sort or another.”
“Many of these are unlawful or deprive workers of security, earnings and benefits they would enjoy.”
“The reason for this continuing outsourcing is because employers feel that dismissal laws are restrictive.”
“The remedy lies in addressing the inflexibility in dismissals without sacrificing fairness.”
“Also to be considered is that in many industries, margins are under pressure because of the [strong] currency. It should also be remembered that the wage settlement levels this year were quite high.”
Neva Makgetla, Cosatu’s economist, said:
“Given that unemployment is at 31 percent, these job losses are unacceptable.”
“It is going to be a black Christmas for many people. The overvaluation of the rand has led to the slow growth in the economy. Government should take a strong position that the rand is overvalued.”
James Lennox, Sacob’s chief executive, said:
“We would like to be in a situation where jobs are being created. A lot of businesses are going through traumatic times of adjusting to different environments caused by several factors, among them the strength of the rand.”
“Business is, however, in the process of adapting to the changing environment and one hopes that we come out of this stronger and able to create opportunities for employment.”
Source: BusinessReport
URL: http://www.businessreport.co.za/index.php?fSe…br>