Unemployment Flashcards
What is unemployment?
When someone who is willing and able to work can’t find a job. The person is physically fit, mentally sound, well qualified and willing to work but can’t find a job.
What causes unemployment?
- Poor education: Lack of skills and education makes it hard for the people to find employment
- Labour laws: overly protective labour laws (for employees) make it less attractive to hire new staff; make it very difficult to dismiss or retrench workers, employers are therefore less keen to employ people. o Imbalance in skills set available
Poverty
- Poverty and the resultant social issues incapacitate and discourages the job search and access to labour markets.
- Unemployment causes poverty, and poverty in turn contributes to high and sustained unemployment o Infrastructure
The effect or impact of unemployment
A job provides satisfaction, support and hope and fulfilment. Unemployment affects the unemployed not only financially, but also personally and socially.
Principles of equity
The principle of giving extra job opportunities or advantages to people who have traditionally been treated unfairly because of their race, gender, sexual orientation physical differences, marital status, disability, religion, HIV status, belief, political opinion, culture, language and birth.
Principle of Redress
The principle which deals with rectifying the wrongs or injustices of the past, making right the current wrong and restoring fairness in South African workplace. - There is an effort to redress the disadvantages of the past and to promote previously disadvantage people like women and disable people.
Affirmative action
deals with equal employment opportunities and equal representation in all occupation groups and levels in the workplace
Employment equity
has to do with the numbers of workers from different groups in the workplace. Equity is achieved through affirmative action.
