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Yesterday, the City of Cape Town said it was still receiving reports of strike-related violence and intimidation, although incidents have decreased since last week. Strikers reportedly stoned council vehicles and threatened staff at a clinic in Khayelitsh...
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The SA Municipal Workers Union (Samwu) says it intends to challenge the interdict granted to the City of Cape Town last week preventing striking municipal workers from intimidating non-striking employees and its lawyers are studying the interdict granted ...
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A construction worker died on Monday after he was crushed by a crane at a factory in Somerset West. Workers tried to move a part of an old crane and in doing so the other part collapsed onto one of the workers.
Based on a short report at Eyewitness New...
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Businesses must beware of a syndicate offering to help them recover unclaimed money from the Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF), according to commissioner Boas Seruwe. Forms entitled "UIF-Administrator of Fund" or "Unclaimed Income Fund" were being circul...
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The SA Municipal Workers' Union's (Samwu) biggest branch was not supporting the national municipal strike en masse, its spokesman stated on Monday. Tahir Sema said without elaborating: “In the City of Joburg, there has not been many people participatin...
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The NUM reports that it has formally declared an internal dispute with Xstrata over the company’s Employee Share Ownership Programme (ESOP). The company is apparently of the view that employees should benefit from the share scheme according to their gra...
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Thousands of striking municipal workers are expected to march in Durban on Wednesday, according to Independent Municipal and Allied Trade Union (Imatu) president Stanley Khoza. He said on Monday that the union is expecting about 4,000 workers to take par...
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The Independent Municipal and Allied Trade Union (IMATU) on Monday reported that more than 70,000 of its members have joined the municipal industrial action which started last Monday when Samwu members went on strike. However, the union says it has not ye...
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Women have crashed through prejudices in the last 25 years, but there are still relatively few women at the top in Britain. This author from the Guardian says the labour market has segregated into one for mums and one for serious players and that the gend...
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The nationwide strike by the SA Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu) enters its second week today, amid warnings that it will intensify in Gauteng. The union says a dispute with one of its regions in Gauteng has been resolved and Johannesburg will now start...
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The City of Cape Town says it will raise the issue of the recent violent protests when municipal unions and employers meet at the bargaining council on Tuesday. Employer body Salga and Samwu are set to renegotiate annual wage increases, but the City has r...
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The SA Security Forces' Union (Sasfu) says millions of rand has been spent on paying soldiers while they have been on suspension for the last two years. Four-hundred soldiers rioted at the Union Buildings during a march in 2009 to demand wage increases a...
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The Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (Popcru) has labelled Gauteng police commissioner Lieutenant General Mzwandile Petros a liar and called for his immediate suspension. It has accused him of misleading Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa about the circu...
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The security industry watchdog is investigating allegations of "serious irregularities" relating to employee conditions made against Mabotwane Security Services, which could result in its deregistration. The Department of Labour says it was also investig...
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AngloGold Ashanti and Gold Fields are among producers threatened with costly court battles as rights groups enlist thousands of former miners with work-related lung disease to a class action suit. Human rights lawyer Richard Spoor is in the process of ide...
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The government’s drive to provide an extensive array of benefits for military veterans had nothing to do with who former Umkhonto weSizwe soldiers would support at the next ANC elective conference, according to Deputy Defence and Military Veterans Minis...
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Wrong skills produced by schools and universities were at the root of SA’s unemployment problem as opposed to inflexibility in the labour market, said former Reserve Bank governor Tito Mboweni over the weekend. He maintained the country’s labour laws ...
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Speaking at the annual Women in Mining conference on Saturday, Minerals Minister Susan Shabangu called for more women in top positions in the mining industry. "We wish to see women occupying meaningful and even strategic jobs in the mining industry, inclu...
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Mabotwane Security Services, which has a R54-million Department of Justice contract, allegedly forces its guards to work shifts of longer than 24 hours and has equipped them only with pepper-spray guns at sites where armed guards are required. Guards cla...
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The Times reports on employee housing at Mabotwane Security Services, which has landed multi-million-rand government contracts, where up to 14 guards live in a single room for which they pay the company R400 a month. The company's six-roomed houses, one o...
