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A total of 25,138 work opportunities were created in KwaZulu-Natal through the Expanded Public Works Program from April to September this year. According to the provincial Department of Public Works, this amounted to more than 70% of the 34,000 work oppo...
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Job seekers should be wary of companies or agents charging fees for possible employment, the Department of Labour said on Friday. Nowhere in the Basic Conditions of Employment Act is there provision for a job seeker to pay before being offered a job, but ...
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The National Union of Mineworkers has voiced strong reservations about a Chinese bid to buy insolvent Pamodzi Gold's Orkney mine and accused Chinese African Precious Minerals (CAPM) of trying to shirk its responsibilities on wages to its prospective workf...
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No tours of the Robben Island Museum were cancelled yesterday despite a workers’ strike which began on Wednesday. Striking Nehawu members are demanding a salary increase of R2,500, plus time-off over the Christmas period. Yesterday a group of abo...
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The Eastern Cape High Court has upheld an order that the provincial education department must immediately fill 6,249 mainly vacant temporary teaching posts. The department’s application to rescind an earlier high court order was rejected, with organisat...
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Gautrain on Friday said it has launched an SMS alert service to keep customers updated about any delays or big news. Earlier this week bus drivers on feeder routes went on a wildcat strike.
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Transnet’s R110bn capital expenditure plan would have an estimated economy-wide effect of 75,000 new jobs by the end of 2016, CEO Brian Molefe said yesterday at the Numsa jobs conference. The plan is in line with the state’s New Growth Path objective ...
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National Planning Commission director-general Kuben Naidoo says SA has few options to address youth unemployment, and has yet to build a bureaucracy capable of implementing the necessary solutions. Addressing the Young Communist League’s Youth for Jobs ...
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Provisional liquidators were appointed yesterday to wind up the affairs of politically connected Aurora Empowerment Systems, which took over the management of the Grootvlei and Orkney mines from the insolvent Pamodzi Gold. Solidarity is to ask liquidator ...
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Labour columnist Terry Bell writes that, overall, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan’s mini-budget statement has been given a fairly resounding thumbs down by the labour movement, as well as the army of the recently retrenched. Most of the ire is at his in...
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The National Health Insurance (NHI) initiative is expected to take 14 years to phase in and will cost about R500m for the pilot stage alone. But it is still not clear in medium-term budget policy statement who will foot the bill.
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The National Employers' Association of SA (Neasa) this week took on the Metal and Engineering Industries Bargaining Council (MEIBC) in a mammoth Labour Court contest that could have huge ramifications for the labour movement and how wage increases are neg...
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Wits University continues to practise apartheid-style segregation and treatment of workers, claims a hard-hitting report by staff members, students and workers. The Wits Workers Solidarity Committee this week submitted the report to the university’s sen...
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Lawyers working on the inquiry into the loss of R100m of clothing workers’ provident fund money are to submit an application to compel former union organiser Richard Kawie to give evidence in the proceedings. Kawie, who had been a pensions consultant to...
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The Chamber of Mines said yesterday 140,000 jobs could be created if the government addressed infrastructure constraints such as rail links and the granting of water licences needed to open mines. It agreed with the African National Congress Youth League...
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Diamond miner De Beers is going all out to create 5,000 non-mining jobs in the Namaqualand diamond mines area in the next five years, while it passes the Namaqua mining baton on to Trans Hex. Since opening an enterprise development hub in Kleinzee in Augu...
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Miner Northam Platinum reported yesterday that the deadlock with the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and Solidarity over wages at its Zondereinde division has not been able to be resolved. According to the company, the NUM was being “completel...
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Solidarity has threatened to bring airline Mango's flights to a halt if it does not immediately set about wage negotiations in earnest. At a CCMA conciliation meeting yesterday the union, which represents the vast majority of the airline’s pilots, was ...
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Mining contractor JIC Mining Services and the National Union of Mineworkers have settled on a two-year wage agreement, ending a strike that impacted on Eastern Platinum’s Crocodile River mine and Royal Bafokeng Platinum’s (RBPlat’s) Bafokeng Rasimon...
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The government should cut interest rates and bring back capital controls, the National Union of Metalworkers of SA said at its job summit yesterday. General secretary Irvin Jim stated: “This will go a long way to creating employment and jobs in the coun...
