FEDUSA, to which MISA is affiliated, was recently part of a labour transformation agreement reached between government, business and labour.

The agreement, dubbed the Ekurhuleni Declaration, has opened the way to a new and fairer labour dispensation that can benefit all players in the South African economy: its full- and part-time workers, civil society, the unemployed, business and government.

The direct result of the indaba has been the formation of a 24-person ‘Committee of Principals’ comprised of six cabinet ministers and six representatives from each of business, labour, and the social community.

FEDUSA general secretary, Dennis George, says: “Never before in our country’s history have so many senior members of government been so directly involved in the business of forging better circumstances for the country’s businesses, workers and the unemployed.”

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