{"id":38095,"date":"2025-04-06T13:53:59","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T13:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.premium-partners.net\/?p=38095"},"modified":"2025-04-07T06:31:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T06:31:19","slug":"government-calls-for-collaboration-with-compliance-issues-in-hospitality-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.premium-partners.net\/fr\/builder\/government-calls-for-collaboration-with-compliance-issues-in-hospitality-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Government calls for collaboration with compliance issues in hospitality industry"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Department of Employment and Labour has committed to collaborate with the hospitality industry in a bid to strengthen occupational health and safety compliance <\/p>\n

This comes after the department late last year launched a multi-agency operation in response to growing reports of worker exploitation in the hospitality sector as part of ongoing efforts to tackle cheap labour and employee abuse.<\/p>\n

During a blitz that was conducted last year on hospitality sector for compliance, a number of restaurants were closed because of non-compliance. <\/p>\n

The department held a breakfast session on Friday with the Federated Hospitality Association of South Africa (Fedhasa) to strengthen the relationship between hospitality industry and the department in terms of compliance.<\/p>\n

Fedhasa deputy national chairperson, Monwabisi Thethe, said that F<\/span>edhasa<\/span> <\/span>felt like a problem child in terms compliance. The purpose of the session was to ensure that <\/span>Fedhasa<\/span> <\/span>members are educated on their rights and responsibilities in terms of compliance with the department.<\/p>\n

Thethe also highlighted that <\/span>Fedhasa<\/span> <\/span>members were fixing their relationship with the department in terms of compliance, and as it stands in the hospitality sector, 80% was South African and 70% was youth.<\/p>\n

In attendance, <\/span>Inspector General Aggy Moiloa, spoke about compliance and non-compliance from companies, the problem of employing undocumented foreign nationals. She further urged the employers to employ more locals, highlighting that this was the second time a session with <\/span>Fedhasa<\/span> wa<\/span>s held, and the third <\/span>one was coming.<\/p>\n

Milly Ruiters, chief Inspector occupational health and safety (OHS), emphasized that OHS is a vital component for decent work especially in the hospitality sector.<\/p>\n

Ruiters said all employers had the obligation to make sure they looked after the wellbeing of the employees, adding that Fedhasa<\/span> <\/span>must go and read section 8 of the OHS Act.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the guide to comply with OHS,\u201d Ruiters said. \u201cWe need to proactively prevent injuries and diseases.\u201d<\/p>\n

Deputy Minister Jomo Sibiya appreciated the collaboration of <\/span>Fedhasa<\/span> <\/span>with the department, stating that some employers just did not know what to do.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is not like they don\u2019t want to comply. This is going to be extended to other sectors beside hospitality, because as government we must produce the environment that is conducive for employers to thrive,\u201d Sibiya said.<\/p>\n

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The Department of Employment and Labour has committed to collaborate with the hospitality industry in a bid to strengthen occupational health and safety compliance\u00a0This comes after the department late last year launched a multi-agency operation in response to growing reports of worker exploitation in the hospitality sector as part of ongoing efforts to tackle cheap labour and employee abuse.During a blitz that was conducted last year on hospitality sector for compliance, a number of restaurants were closed because of non-compliance.\u00a0The department held a breakfast session on Friday with the Federated Hospitality Association of South Africa (Fedhasa) to strengthen the relationship between hospitality industry and the department in terms of compliance.Fedhasa deputy national chairperson, Monwabisi Thethe, said that Fedhasa\u00a0felt like a problem child in terms compliance. The purpose of the session was to ensure that\u00a0Fedhasa\u00a0members are educated on their rights and responsibilities in terms of compliance with the department.Thethe also highlighted that\u00a0Fedhasa\u00a0members were fixing their relationship with the department in terms of compliance, and as it stands in the hospitality sector, 80% was South African and 70% was youth.In attendance,\u00a0Inspector General Aggy Moiloa, spoke about compliance and non-compliance from companies, the problem of employing undocumented foreign nationals. She further urged the employers to employ more locals, highlighting that this was the second time a session with\u00a0Fedhasa was held, and the third\u00a0one was coming.Milly Ruiters, chief Inspector occupational health and safety (OHS), emphasized that OHS is a vital component for decent work especially in the hospitality sector.Ruiters said all employers had the obligation to make sure they looked after the wellbeing of the employees, adding that Fedhasa\u00a0must go and read section 8 of the OHS Act.\u201cIt\u2019s the guide to comply with OHS,\u201d Ruiters said. \u201cWe need to proactively prevent injuries and diseases.\u201dDeputy Minister Jomo Sibiya appreciated the collaboration of\u00a0Fedhasa\u00a0with the department, stating that some employers just did not know what to do.\u201cIt is not like they don\u2019t want to comply. This is going to be extended to other sectors beside hospitality, because as government we must produce the environment that is conducive for employers to thrive,\u201d Sibiya said.BUSINESS REPORT<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-builder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.premium-partners.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.premium-partners.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.premium-partners.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.premium-partners.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.premium-partners.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.premium-partners.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38096,"href":"https:\/\/www.premium-partners.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38095\/revisions\/38096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.premium-partners.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.premium-partners.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.premium-partners.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.premium-partners.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}