20 January 2015
The Congress of South African
Trade Union says it rejects the notion that the Employment Tax Incentive has
led 270, 000 people being employed.
Cosatu Spokesperson Patrick
Craven said many of the policies that need to resolve unemployment are already
in place on paper but there are being rolled out far too slowly.
The union has called for the
scrapping of the ETI.
Craven said the new jobs that
have been created would have been created anyway by the employers. The only
difference is they would have received a very large tax reduction as a reward
for doing what they would have done anyway.
He added that It confirms what
exactly Cosatu is saying before their law was passed saying that this is never
going to be a solution to the problem of youth unemployment.
“Now the country was counterproductive
as it was diverting attention away from other real solutions. That is why we
call for the scrapping of this tax incentive which is clearly not working.”
Craven said.
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