Labor intermediaries is an outsourcing form practiced in South Africa (and formerly practiced in Namibia, where it is known as hired labor ) in which the company contracts labor brokers for providing them with casual labor. The labor broker is different from the recruitment agency in the labor broker who handles almost all aspects of the work of the worker (including interviews, recruitment, human resources, admin, payroll, transportation, etc.), while the recruitment agency is solely responsible for finding candidates for employment. In essence, instead of a company that employs a worker, he hires a labor broker who employs workers instead.
The current legal definition of a broker of labor under South African law, as of March 1, 2009, is "any natural person who commits or carries on any business with such a person to provide such business clients with others to provide services or perform work to the client, or to obtain another person for the client, for which the other person's services or work is paid for by such person ".
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Opposition to broking labor
In 2008, Namibia passed a law prohibiting the practice of "labor", the Namibian term for a labor broker. The South African Trade Union Congress (COSATU), South Africa 's largest trade union federation, has called for the elimination of labor brokers in South Africa. COSATU believes that labor brokers are responsible for the increasing casualization of labor in South Africa. Currently about 30% of the South African workforce is failing. Since casual workers receive a much lower salary than regular employees, and because they have much lower job security, the COSATU argues that the labor broker, contrary to his support claims, does not create meaningful employment and that, in fact, rights of workers.
COSATU called for a one-day national strike against the proposed migrant worker and Gauteng e-toll system for March 7, 2012. On that day, the union federation mobilized tens of thousands of people, mostly workers, against labor brokers. Nevertheless, the ruling African National Congress (ANC) digs in his heels; with Minister of Labor Affairs Mildred Oliphant stating that intermediary workers "are here to stay".
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