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Cosatu's general secretary, Zwelinzima Vavi, has thrown his organisation's full weight behind the fight against the Protection of State Information Bill, vowing to march to the Union Buildings if it is sent to President Jacob Zuma for signature. He says w...
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The eight-day strike by the Food and Allied Workers’ Union at Coca-Cola Fortune has ended, with workers reporting for duty yesterday. Demands related to the closing of salary gaps between regions, scrapping of labour brokers and the payment of commissi...
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Statistics South Africa in the Western Cape is confident it has sorted out payments to about 600 enumerators who say they are yet to be paid. On Tuesday, dozens gathered at the organisation’s offices in the CBD after their promised payouts had not mater...
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One of the largest global information technology companies, Atos, which employs 80,000 people in 42 countries, is to ban e-mails because it says 90% of them are a waste of time. Instead, staff must spend more time talking to each other, on the phone or i...
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A report that a combination of concerted legal action and government incentives has stemmed the tide of job losses in the textile sector, with jobs now being created even as more than half of companies have been forced into complying with minimum wage agr...
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Unions yesterday praised Kumba Iron Ore’s R2.6bn Envision employee share ownership plan (ESOP) as a model for empowerment to be used by the mining industry. The NUM’s Lesiba Seshoka said “We wish the entire mining industry takes a leaf from the sch...
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Walter Sisulu University administrator Professor Lourens van Staden is negotiating with banks to secure loans for six months of staff salaries and creditors’ payments. It is the first step in his plan to turn the deeply indebted institution around.
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The Federation of Unions of SA is to draft proposals for the National Development Plan (NDP), Minister in the Presidency Trevor Manuel said on Tuesday. This agreement was reached after Manuel met the union federation to clarify the NDP draft and to hear a...
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Sector Education and Training Authority (Seta) chairs and boards must act against corruption in their organisations, Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande said on Tuesday. Tackling corruption, accountability and accessibility of Setas would improve th...
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Speaking at the Clothing Bargaining Council's annual general meeting, Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies said that the clothing industry will have to innovate and raise productivity to survive the rocky world economy. He called the wage agreement betw...
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With effect from tomorrow, 1 December, the prescribed minimum wage for domestic workers will be increased to R8.34 per hour, or R375.19 per week, or R1,625.70 per month. For work of less than 27 hours per week, the minimum rate is R9.85/R265.94/R1,152.32 ...
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Construction firm Group Five, which employs about 12,000 people, slashed 500 jobs, inclusive of contractors, in the past five months. It says it could cut more in the coming months, although the numbers were likely to be insignificant.
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Solidarity said on Tuesday that wage negotiations with cement producer Lafarge Cement, near Lichtenburg, had reached a stalemate after just two rounds and that it had declared a dispute and referred the matter to the CCMA. The union, which is negotiating ...
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Harmony Gold has advised that an employee was fatally injured this morning following a fall of ground accident at its Tshepong mine near Welkom. Investigations into the accident are underway.
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Kumba Iron Ore announced today that over 6,200 of its employees would each reap a R576,045 payout in December as part of its Envision empowerment plan aimed at non-managers. A total of R279m in dividends has been paid to the same employees over the past f...
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SA must grow the economy and make it more labour absorbing in order to create much needed jobs, according to Minister in the Presidency Trevor Manuel. Briefing the Federation of Unions of SA (Fedusa) on the government's National Development Plan (NDP), M...
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Robben Island Museum says it will be serving certain Nehawu members who took part in the recent strike with suspension letters before the end of the week. Eight union shop stewards who led the three week long strike face disciplinary action.
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Thousands of Anglo American Platinum workers will get free houses to be built by the company. The human settlements department said on Tuesday that "Amplats will build 12,000 houses in the North West and 8,000 in Limpopo over the next 10 years".
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Senior managers at South African companies are increasingly getting involved in white collar economic crime. This emerged from the latest survey by PwC on economic crime in companies worldwide. Some 123 SA companies participated in the survey.
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Leading Prospect director Erwin Da Gama has promised the inquiry into Canyon Springs Investments that he will repay R4m he received through skewed loans from Canyon. The money came from provident funds of SA Clothing and Textile Workers’ Union members. ...
