On 27 March 2026, the Scalabrini Centre of Cape Town submitted its comments on the Department of Employment and Labour’s Labour Law Amendment Bill, 2025. We drew on our work with people on the move  as well as relevant and contemporary research on migration, to offer our inputs on this Bill.  While we agree with many of the Bill’s aims and proposals and support the passing of the bill, our comments in this submission are focused on the impact some of the proposals will have on refugees, asylum seekers and other migrants whose documentation status may or may not be precarious or in positions of heightened vulnerability. Our submission focuses on the need for legislation to protect non-citizens and the realities of documentation for asylum seekers, refugees and migrants in South Africa and how this may impact the legislations’ effectiveness.