Logic missing in debate on pay

The recommendations of the national minimum wage advisory panel, chaired by our deputy president and now Cosatu's presidential candidate, Cyril Ramaphosa, set tongues wagging this week, with many unions and opposition parties criticising the R20 an hour (R3500 a month) as too low.According to reports, this all started with Nedlac convening a labour-relations indaba in November 2014, at which government, business, labour and community representatives agreed to "engage on the modalities of introdu...