COSATU

COSATU supports nuclear new build as it creates unionisable, well-paid energy jobs unlike IPP contract work.

COSATU conditionally supports the competitive electricity market if IPP contracts include decent work conditions and local content.

COSATU accepts Eskom unbundling only with just transition guarantees, skills retraining, and wage protections for affected workers.

COSATU opposes cost-reflective tariffs without stronger cross-subsidies, fearing electricity price increases for low-income households.

COSATU supports integrated public transport as it reduces transport costs for workers commuting from townships.

COSATU strongly supports PRASA rail recovery as affordable commuter transport directly benefits low-income workers.

COSATU accepts freight rail third-party access only with labour protections preventing a race to the bottom on wages.

COSATU demands that Transnet concessioning include labour protections, minimum wage conditions, and transition support.

COSATU supports directing GEPF funds to infrastructure only with ironclad guarantees protecting public sector workers' pension returns.

COSATU opposes fuel price deregulation, fearing price increases in rural areas and for low-income commuters.

Idea funds the LRA's own dispute-resolution machinery and speeds worker case resolution; brief's worker-protection interest favours it, and no flexibility element exists for the templated caveat.

Clearing a 100,000-case backlog for injured workers is squarely the brief's worker-protection interest; nothing in the idea supports the templated flexibility caveat.

Extending UIF coverage, labour protections and dispute resolution to 3 million informal workers is the brief's core protection interest; there is nothing to condition on.

Idea scales retrenchment-preventing turnaround support; brief's transition-support conditions and design insights favour it, with no flexibility measure for the caveat to attach to.

Idea modernises UIF claims and governance for unemployed contributors; brief's worker-protection and income-support interests favour it, and no flexibility measure exists for the templated caveat.

Supports worker protection elements but opposes flexibility measures that weaken LRA protections — re: Employment Tax Incentive (ETI) Extension and Expansion

Supports worker protection elements but opposes flexibility measures that weaken LRA protections — re: Labour Activation Programme for Long-Term Unemployed

Equitable wage growth is a recorded core COSATU interest; the idea leaves the review's direction open — formula adequacy versus employment absorption — so support is conditional on the mechanism strengthening rather than eroding the wage floor.

The brief makes COSATU an essential NEDLAC negotiating partner and records equitable wage growth as a primary interest; a compact premised on wage-moderation commitments (idea text) is engageable only on terms protecting that interest.

Supports worker protection elements but opposes flexibility measures that weaken LRA protections — re: Section 189 Retrenchment Process Reform

COSATU supports informal economy integration as it extends labour protections and social security to vulnerable workers.

COSATU supports BizPortal simplification as it does not threaten worker protections while reducing bureaucratic friction.

COSATU conditionally supports taxi formalisation only with genuine consultation and transition support for taxi operators and workers.

COSATU supports SMME regulatory burden reduction but opposes any weakening of labour protections under the LRA or BCEA.

COSATU supports the 30% SMME procurement set-aside as a tool for broad-based job creation.

COSATU supports EPWP reform toward skills pathways as a mechanism for labour-intensive public employment.

COSATU supports the BELA Act as it advances educational equity and extends compulsory schooling.

COSATU supports mother-tongue multilingual education as it improves learning outcomes for working-class children.

COSATU supports the literacy programme as foundational to breaking the cycle of unemployment and inequality.

COSATU supports expanded NSFAS funding as essential for working-class access to post-school education.

COSATU supports TVET quality reform as it creates decent employment pathways for working-class youth.

COSATU supports SETA reform only if worker representatives retain governance seats and training addresses worker advancement.

COSATU supports mental health services expansion as workplace mental health directly affects worker productivity and wellbeing.

COSATU is a strong NHI advocate, viewing universal healthcare as a fundamental worker right and ANC alliance commitment.

The idea's core is formalising 72,000 community health workers as a paid tier and averting 15,000 retrenchments as PEPFAR funding ends; formal employment quality and protections for vulnerable workers are recorded COSATU concerns.

COSATU supports absorbing unemployed healthcare workers into the public health system as both a jobs and service delivery intervention.

COSATU supports APDP enhancement as it protects well-paid manufacturing jobs in the automotive sector.

COSATU supports the EV White Paper only with just transition provisions for workers in affected automotive supply chains.

COSATU supports the R-CTFL Master Plan as it protects 100,000+ jobs in a labour-intensive manufacturing sector.

COSATU supports the Steel Master Plan as it protects metalworking jobs and domestic manufacturing capability.

COSATU's recorded conditions for restructuring — wage-floor protections in concessioned entities, retraining and income support for displaced workers — are the terms any SAA equity-partner or wind-down path must meet, making support conditional.

COSATU opposes fiscal consolidation that implies austerity cuts to public sector wages and social spending.

COSATU opposes redirecting social grants toward employment programmes, viewing grants as a constitutional safety net.

COSATU conditionally supports RAF reform only if accident victims retain access to adequate compensation without benefit cuts.

COSATU opposes PPPs for social infrastructure, viewing them as privatisation of public services that raises costs for communities.

COSATU opposes PFMA and procurement flexibility reforms that could weaken accountability and facilitate outsourcing.