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Striking Rea Vaya bus drivers in Johannesburg will hopefully be back at work by the beginning of September, operator Piotrans said on Wednesday. Piotrans would be meeting with the SA Municipal Worker's Union (Samwu) on 29 August over the matter. Bus drive...
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Minister of Public Service and Administration Richard Baloyi is concerned about the number of public servants rehired by government departments after being suspended, fired or resigning from their previous government jobs after fraud and corruption accusa...
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According to Dr Yogan Pillay, deputy director general for health, the yardstick for how much people will pay for National Health Insurance (NHI) is their current contribution to medical funds, as the plan for the new system was to try to ensure that indiv...
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Economic Development Minister Ebrahim Patel says that, after seven consecutive quarters of job losses, there have been two consecutive quarters of job creation, but jobs were not being created fast enough to absorb the rising labour force. Up to 64,000 ne...
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Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan has said that the proposed youth wage subsidy was only one possible intervention being considered under the New Growth Path economic policy to help government meet its "ambitious" target of creating five million new jobs by...
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City of Cape Town officials on Wednesday claimed the number of municipal workers who are on strike is decreasing. About 1,900 workers affiliated to the Independent Municipal and Allied Trade Union (IMATU) and SA Municipal Workers' Union (Satawu) stayed aw...
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Mthandeki Nhlapho, general secretary of municipal union Samwu, told SABC radio today that the union had reduced its wage demand from 18% to 10%, although it still wanted a minimum R2 000 across the board payment. This was decided during a second roun...
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The National Union on Mineworkers (NUM) says it has turned down the latest wage offer of Roshcon, a unit of Eskom, and will declare a dispute with the CCMA later this week. The union is demanding a 9% wage increase and a 60% employer share of medical aid ...
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East Coast Radio reports an IMATU KwaZulu-Natal official as saying that feedback from that union’s representatives at the Bargaining Council meeting today to resolve the ongoing municipal strike has not been positive. The employers’ body, Salga, has s...
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Sasol has confirmation there was an explosion on the west side of its Secunda plant at about 10h00 this morning, which resulted in a fire. There were no reported fatalities, but one person was injured and five others were being "medically assessed".
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Village Main Reef announced today (Wednesday) that a mine worker had been killed in a fall of ground resulting from a seismic event at the Tau Lekoa gold mine. The accident occurred in the early hours of this morning.
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National Education, Health and Allied Workers' Union (Nehawu) workers in the Free State were set to march in Phuthaditjhaba today against privatisation. The union says Premier Ace Magashule had promised to reverse most of the government's outsourced and p...
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Striking essential service workers in Tshwane have been persuaded by the SA Municipal Workers' Union (Samwu) to go back to work, the City said on Tuesday. Repercussions of participation on their employment contracts was explained to the union on Monday a...
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Fin24 reports that consumer inflation (CPI) quickened slightly more than expected to 5.3% year-on-year in July, from 5.0% in June. Stanlib chief economist Kevin Lings commented: "The monthly number is high and it does raise the prospect of inflation going...
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The SA Transport & Allied Workers Union (Satawu), which together with seven other unions, has been engaged in a weeks-long wage strike in the contract cleaning sector, will be consulting its provincial leadership in the sector today about a revised of...
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The SA Local Government Bargaining Council confirms that the meeting held yesterday, on its initiative, between employers and employees to resolve the strike in the municipal sector will continue today. The meeting was held at the Council’s office in Me...
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The cabinet has agreed to several measures aimed at tackling SA's skills shortage. Noting that the labour market was plagued by skills shortages that constrained growth potential, it has resolved that consideration be given to covering the full cost of st...
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The ANC’s National Executive Committee, which held a four-day meeting which ended on Monday, has expressed serious concern about violence during strikes and has called on its alliance partner, Cosatu, to rein in its affiliates.
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A report that Shoprite is fending off competition from rival food retailers with an aggressive roll-out of new stores that created more than 7,000 jobs in the past year. New stores planned for this financial year can create a further 9,000 jobs.
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Businesses are failing to exploit tax incentives for Sector Education and Training Authority (Seta) students’ vocational training, making it difficult for aspiring artisans to gain workplace experience, says KPMG. The incentive is aimed at boosting the ...
