NEDLAC CORRECTS REPORT ON THE PROPOSED TRAINING LEVY

8 July 1996

In a report titled, "Payroll levy plan to pay for training" published in Business Day on Friday, July 5, 1996, Nedlac Executive Director Jayendra Naidoo was quoted as saying Nedlac's Executive Council "had moved from investigations mode to negotiations mode. We set up a negotiating committee to hammer out an agreement on the levy."

Naidoo said he was incorrectly quoted in the report as saying the negotiating committee was to hammer out an "agreement on the levy".

"The report gives the impression that the levy option was the only one sanctioned by Nedlac's Executive Council," he said.

"In fact, the Executive Council of Nedlac has agreed to enter into a negotiation mode, not on a training levy per se as reported, but more broadly on the subject of funding of training."

"A training levy is in fact one of four options which the parties will have to consider. A final report with recommendations on the preferred option is exected to be tabled at Nedlac within the next six weeks," he said.