The South African labour market faces a dynamic and challenging 2016: rn

• The introduction of a national minimum wage is imminent.

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• Dissident Cosatu unions talk of joining the expelled metal workers’ union Numsa to establish a new trade union federation.

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• The effect of 2015 amendments to labour laws will continue to be tested in labour courts.

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• Important court judgments on industry collective bargaining and affirmative action will be handed down.

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• The mining sector will struggle to emerge from a period of industrial relations instability following a rupture in traditional union membership in the sector.