Presidential Job Summit Supervisory Structure weekly meetings

11 AUGUST 1998

The Nedlac Supervisory Structure on the Presidential Job Summit, chaired by Minister of Trade and Industry, Alec Erwin,held its sixth weekly meeting in Johannesburg today. During these meetings, the four Nedlac parties have elaborated on their proposals in order to seek agreement or greaterunderstanding. Further bilaterals will now be held, culminating in report backs to the Supervisory Structure which will prepare a coordinated programme for the job summit.

The four Nedlac constituencies:business, labour, community and government, have concentrated on appropriate policies andprogrammes and focussed considerable attention on effective implementation mechanisms. Allparties remain equally committed to a successful jobs summit and inferences that any party is delaying the process are unfounded.

The date for the job summit willbe decided as soon as possible based on the progress made in these discussions.