{"id":187154,"date":"2024-12-23T13:47:46","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T11:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-employers-urge-delay-in-national-minimum-wage-roll-out-amid-economic-concerns\/"},"modified":"2024-12-23T13:47:46","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T11:47:46","slug":"namibia-employers-urge-delay-in-national-minimum-wage-roll-out-amid-economic-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-employers-urge-delay-in-national-minimum-wage-roll-out-amid-economic-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Employers Urge Delay in National Minimum Wage Roll-Out Amid Economic Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\"><em>The Namibian Employers&#8217; Federation (NEF) is pushing for the postponement of the implementation of the national minimum wage, currently scheduled for 1 January 2025.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">The Wages Commission and Labour Advisory Council recommended a minimum 12-month adjustment period following the official announcement of the N$18 national minimum wage earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">However, the NEF argues that certain sectors will need more time to ensure a sustainable transition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\">&#8220;The NEF fully supports the principle of a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412200088.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Namibian Employers&#8217; Federation (NEF) is pushing for the postponement of the implementation of the national minimum wage, currently scheduled for 1 January 2025. The Wages Commission and Labour Advisory Council recommended a minimum 12-month adjustment period following the official announcement of the N$18 national minimum wage earlier this year. However, the NEF argues that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":187155,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,5987,8036,3576,16531,7666,4706,724,6687,257,18095,254,10525,7667],"class_list":["post-187154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-concerns","tag-delay","tag-economic","tag-employers","tag-minimum","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-national","tag-news","tag-rollout","tag-south-africa-today","tag-urge","tag-wage"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}