EQUAL PAY FOR ALL QUALIFIED WORKERS - SNAT

MANZINI – SNAT has proposed to the Ministry of Labour and Social Security that there should be equal pay for all workers employed in the same industry.

President of the Swaziland National Association of Teachers (SNAT), Mbongwa Dlamini said that it was imperative that there was equality at work.
The Member of Parliament, Lutfo Dlamini led Portfolio Committee yesterday invited the SNAT leadership as stakeholders, as it is the only recognised institution by the government of Eswatini since March 19, 1992.

Eswatini is on a verge of finalising its Employment Bill of 2018 and as ILO was analysing and comparing it with some of its conventions (where Eswatini was a signatory), mainly the Abolition of Forced Labour Convention No.5 of 1957 (ratification: 2000), it punched holes as it view the practice as forced labour.

The SNAT executive committee was there to submit as a stakeholder to the portfolio committee towards the amendment of the Employment Act of 1980.
“Whether an employee has a Degree, Honor’s Degrees or  Master’s, they must get equal pay because they are in the same industry as they perform the same scope of work and duties,” pointed out the SNAT president.

Dlamini made an example of multiple teachers employed in the same school, whereby they tutor the same class but are then not equally paid.
He pointed out to the portfolio committee that this misdemeanour should be addressed in the Employment Bill of 2018.

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