On October 20, a newspaper article titled ‘Millennials struggling to survive on low-paying jobs’, lamented the fact that many young people entering the job market are not able to find jobs that allow them to create a solid financial base.

My response to this is, why are we surprised about it? Isn’t this what we sowed? If you plant pepper you can’t get oranges. So why do we always expect to reap what we don’t sow?

Anyone who has been reading my “jottings” over the years, or listened to my commentary, knows my views on our labour laws and industrial disputes environment. I have always stated that the labour laws and the way we manage industrial disputes would eventually lead to the erosion of the labour market and that those at the lower income levels of the market would suffer most.

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