Labour market agreement signed between China and South Africa
27 August 2013
South Africa and China are strengthening labour market links, with the South African labour minister having signed a memorandum of understanding looking to confirm “labour-intensive projects that are aimed at creating jobs” with the Chinese minister of human resources and social security.
Tue, 27 Aug 2013South Africa and China are strengthening labour market links, with the South African labour minister having signed a memorandum of understanding looking to confirm “labour-intensive projects that are aimed at creating jobs” with the Chinese minister of human resources and social security.
SA News, the news agency of the South African government, reports that Mildred Oliphant, as part of a departmental delegation on a week-long visit to China, signed the memorandum yesterday with Yin Weimin.
The collaboration will strengthen “co-operation between the two countries in labour market and social security development”, SA News reports, including issues such as youth employment, integrating the unemployed into the labour market and opportunities to place young South African entrepreneurs in China “for them to gain experience… based on international best practices”.
The move follows the 2006 formalisation of the bilateral relations between the countries established in the 1990s, with Weimin saying the partnership “has reached a new stage”.
SA News, the news agency of the South African government, reports that Mildred Oliphant, as part of a departmental delegation on a week-long visit to China, signed the memorandum yesterday with Yin Weimin.
The collaboration will strengthen “co-operation between the two countries in labour market and social security development”, SA News reports, including issues such as youth employment, integrating the unemployed into the labour market and opportunities to place young South African entrepreneurs in China “for them to gain experience… based on international best practices”.
The move follows the 2006 formalisation of the bilateral relations between the countries established in the 1990s, with Weimin saying the partnership “has reached a new stage”.
