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SA will shed hundreds of thousands of jobs in the current global economic decline, with one estimate indicating that 468,000 will lose their jobs. Although Statistics SA's official unemployment figure stands at 4.5m, statistician-general Pali Lehohla, Adc...
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Food and clothing retailer Woolworths paid its CEO Ian Moir R13.6m for the year, represented by a bonus of R8.25-million added to his R5.312-million normal package. Short term bonuses totalling R20.34-million were paid to four executive directors. The gr...
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A Business Day editorial says that it is unclear why Cosatu wants local retailers to carry a 75% quota of locally produced goods, other than that this is understood to be a higher percentage than the status quo. It says no coherent argument has been put f...
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Between 15% and 30% of working South Africans will experience mental problems at some point in their careers and around 30% of those would suffer chronic mental health problems, Agility Global Health Solutions said in a release on World Mental Health Day ...
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Reporting for duty drunk, administering corporal punishment and sexual assault are among the main reasons for the dismissal of teachers, the SA Democratic Teachers Union (Sadtu) said yesterday at its Limpopo regional conference. Outgoing Chairman Ronny Mo...
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Trade unions yesterday raised fears about job losses if the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) makes Telkom exchanges, linking customer premises, available to other parties. The authority is holding hearings into local-loop unbundling regu...
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The National Employers Association of SA (Neasa) wants the Labour Court to annul the decision by Labour Minister Mildred Oliphant to extend to non-signatories the engineering sector wage agreement signed by Seifsa and Numsa in July. Neasa, which represen...
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Cosatu will join the ANC Youth League (ANCYL) marches for economic freedom of the working class and poor, spokesperson Patrick Craven said yesterday. The League welcomed Cosatu’s support. Mass action will take place on 27 and 28 October.
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It was premature to suggest that the government should review its target of creating 5m jobs in 10 years despite worsening economic circumstances in rich countries and a possible decline in the domestic growth rate, Richard Levin, director-general of the ...
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Economist Mike Schüssler says we have been led to believe that South African bosses/employers earn about 500 times more than employees, or 55 times more at least, but this information is misleading and incorrect. Statistics SA’s second labour market dy...
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Some 498 young people from Mpumalanga have graduated from the National Youth Service skills development programme and were awarded their certificates during a ceremony held in Mbombela. The certificates recognise their 12-month artisan training in various...
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Launching his department's human resource strategy document yesterday, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said SA needs "many, many, many, many more" doctors, but he does not know how long it will take to fill all the vacancies. The new strategy document es...
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Cosatu’s possible industrial action over the Massmart-Walmart tie-up, particularly if protracted and widespread, could further hit the manufacturing industry, Absa Capital said in a research note on Tuesday. The federation has said it would consider emb...
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AngloGold Ashanti yesterday reported a fatality at its Kopanang mine. Bheki Eric Gama, a stope team leader, was injured on 29 September 2011 and, after undergoing surgery last Thursday, he sadly passed away on Monday, 10 October 2011.
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Africa needs appropriate development policies to create decent work and put an end to poverty, President Zuma said on Tuesday when opening the International Labour Organisation's (ILO) 12th Africa regional meeting. He raised concern that the share of the ...
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Recent global economic protests underline why youth employment should be a primary development goal, Labour Minister Mildred Oliphant said on Tuesday. According to her, 400m new jobs were needed between now and 2020 to absorb newcomers to the global job ...
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Aquarius Platinum said today a protected strike by some employees of contractor Murray and Roberts Cementation (MRC) was underway at its Everest mine. The strike has been called by the Association of Mining and Construction Unions (AMCU), which is demandi...
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The reopening of teachers' training colleges and the shortage of classrooms in Limpopo schools will be high on the agenda during the three-day SA Democratic Teachers’ Union elective conference starting today. The union is concerned about the shortage of...
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In accordance with its announcement in July, Exxaro Resources will retrench staff and stop producing zinc at its Zincor refinery in Springs by the end of the year. With the consultation period with labour unions under the auspices of the CCMA having been ...
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The National Employers Association of SA (Neasa) yesterday called for a 50% cut in the minimum wage for entry-level jobs in the metal and engineering sector, in a bid to revive an industry which has lost nearly 100,000 jobs since 2008. Neasa will be in c...
