23% of KZN agriculture businesses non-compliant
Almost a quarter of employers in KwaZulu-Natal's agriculture sector have been fingered for labour law breaches.
Labour and Employment officials say they are disappointed to report that some 23 percent of businesses are non-compliant.
A parliamentary portfolio committee's been on a three-day joint oversight programme in the Amajuba and uThukela District Municipalities.
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iNkosi Mandla Mandela from the Agricultural Department says all farmers will have to submit to an audit.
"If they fall short of those issues right there and then there will be measures taken against the farmer in the sense that if he has got foreign national on the farm, Home Affairs is there to verify if they got papers to the in the republic.
"Secondly, if they also have working papers to be in the Republic of South Africa."
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