South Africa and China can learn a lot from each other especially in the areas of collective bargaining, industrial relations, inspections and enforcement services as well as social protection.
This is the view of Labour Minister Mildred Oliphant who met Mr Wang, a Chinese deputy minister of human resources in social security. They met in bilateral talks on the side-lines of the International Labour Conference 2013 in Geneva.
"We are looking at other areas of cooperation. Previously we have worked with China on the training of inspectors. We have indicated that we can learn from employment services while they have indicated a need to study our social protection like the work we are doing at the Unemployment Insurance Fund," said Oliphant.
Both ministers indicated that youth employment was one of the biggest challenges they are facing at the moment with China having at least an unemployment rate of 4.1percent.
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