“Put bluntly, you can’t have workable pay bargaining, without bargaining units. You can’t have bargaining units without job grading. You can’t have job grading without credible performance appraisal, and you can’t have performance management without effective organisational structure and manpower development. And so on”.
“The inability to create unskilled jobs is one of the main barriers to SA’s social and economic viability. Well-paid pundits’ solutions to this problem are thwarted by their own ideologies, assumptions and politics.
“What is needed now is a national conversation on public sector pay and national priorities. And it needs to start as soon as the strike is over, before the battle starts up all over again next year, and before even more advertising is booked in newspapers.
Measuring ‘external parity’ and ‘internal equity’ is an essential function of management. Section 27 of the Employment Equity Act of 1988 creates a framework (EEA 9) obliging the management of every designated employer to state the remuneration, including all benefits, in each occupational level of the business, from top to bottom, to ensure there are proportionate income differentials in the business.
Should an employer in the public sector be held accountable to the Labour Court to explain why it settled a claim of alleged unfair ‘dismissal’ by an 80-year old specialist psychiatrist who had been employed for 40 years ?
“South African companies need to revisit their risk management policies in the wake of the global recession, say corporate governance experts”.
“More focus has also been placed on the role of risk management due to the report of the King Committee on Corporate Governance in SA, in which its chairman, Mervyn King, points out that accountability and transparency (of the board) are paramount”.
MICHEL PIREU: (pireum@bdfm.co.za) has contributed the following words of wisdom in his StreetDogs column in BusinessDay today, being extracts from Planning for Freedom: Let the Market System Work, A Collection of Essays & Addresses by Ludwig von Mises:
Thanks to an internet search it is now possible to reproduce Erik T Paterson’s obituary of a remarkable man, his father, emeritus professor Thomas Thomson Paterson BSc(Edin), MA, PhD(Cantab), Archaeologist, Palaeontologist, Geologist, Glaciologist, Geographer, Anthropologist, Ethnologist, Sociologist and world authority on Administration, who died on the 9th of April, 1994, in Lions Gate Hospital, North Vancouver, after a ten year battle with cancer of the prostate.
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Schedule EEA 9 to the Employment Equity Act, 1998 mentions equivalent occupational levels and refers to a semantic scale, Paterson, Peromnes, Hay and Castellion. (more…)