Employment and Labour Minister Thulas Nxesi announced a 4.5% salary increase in the wholesale and retail sector.
The amended sectoral determination will apply to cashiers, drivers, bakers, displayers including supervisors and assistant managers and managers.
The increase applies only to workers earning above the National Minimum Wage rates.
The department’s acting spokesperson Makhosonke Buthelezi says, “Workers in the wholesale and retail sector earn below the NMW (National Minimum Wage) in the sector, their increases were affected from the first of January.”
“The latest adjustment applied to workers in both area A and B. Area A is mostly big municipalities like Johannesburg and Cape Town and B is all areas in the rural areas. It is applicable in both areas,” adds Buthelezi.
