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A suggestion in Parliament yesterday by Planning Minister Trevor Manuel that principals at state schools often did not know how to manage teachers and should be properly trained and equipped to run schools has drawn mixed reaction from teachers’ unions....
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SABC executive Hlaudi Motsoeneng has continued his rapid rise up the corporate ladder with his appointment as acting chief operations officer of the broadcaster this week. He has raised the ire of unions along the way, but seems to have won them over, wit...
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The number of former mineworkers claiming damages from Anglo American SA for deadly lung diseases after working in gold mines has increased to over 700 from 450, reports the British law firm representing the workers. The case was filed in the UK as that w...
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Economist Mike Schüssler says the structure of the employment market in SA is extremely rigid as nearly 85% of all people who are employed, are employees, while only 15% of the employed are employers or self-employed. A major difference with developed ec...
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Solidarity and the Tshwane Municipality will face each other in the Labour Court today in a controversial case regarding what the union claims is the unfair implementation of affirmative action. In respect of its member Marco de Sampaio, the union mainta...
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The National Union of Mineworkers has responded to a statement issued by the Democratic Alliance's Tim Harris in which he thanks the union for "coming in support of the youth wage subsidy". It says that, as a matter of fact, it does not support the youth...
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SA's slower recovery than in other comparable countries is partly due to the inefficiency of product and labour markets that has exacerbated the impact of economic shocks, Abebe Selassie, assistant director for the IMF's Africa Department, told Parliament...
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London lawyer Richard Meeran, representing hundreds of former SA gold miners, has accused their ex-employers of failing to provide access to regular check-ups for silicosis, an incurable lung disease. He says thousands of Eastern Cape miners missed out on...
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A strike by 53,000 Eastern Cape teachers is becoming increasingly likely with the SA Democratic Teacher's Union (Sadtu) having set Friday as its deadline for the national department of basic education to accept its demands. It wants the removal of Modidim...
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The national strike at Coca-Cola entered its second day on Tuesday, with no sign of a breakthrough in negotiations with the Food and Allied Workers Union (Fawu). On Monday, workers countrywide downed tools over a number of work related-issues, including t...
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Harmony Gold reports that a worker has been trapped underground at its Kusasalethu mine after a seismic event triggered a fall of ground. Efforts are being made to rescue the person, with the National Union of Mineworkers and the Department of Mineral Res...
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National Health and Allied Workers' Union (Nehawu) members at the Robben Island Museum on Tuesday said they had no intention of calling off their wage strike, which will be intensified over the festive season, if needs be. They have been on strike since O...
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The elite business complex at Melrose Arch in Johannesburg saw a march yesterday by about 4,000 members of the National Union of Metalworkers of SA to the offices of miner Xstrata Alloys. Employees at plants in Rustenburg have been on strike for three we...
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Efforts are in progress to leverage monies from the government’s R2.4bn training lay-off scheme to support about 1,000 unemployed workers at the Grootvlei mine in Gauteng who lost their jobs in 2009 in the Aurora debacle. Democratic Alliance MP Ian Oll...
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Parliament has given Transnet 10 days to report on a plan of how to raise nearly R2bn to pay out distressed pensioners who belong to the Transnet Second Defined Benefit Fund. The Treasury, the Department of Public Enterprises and the parliamentary portfo...
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The draft Employment Equity and Labour Relations amendment bills have undergone significant reworking in Nedlac over the past year and would be submitted to Cabinet by year-end, Parliament’s labour committee was told yesterday. The other two bills under...
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SA’s platinum output will see only a modest increase next year as the industry is expected again to be constrained by strikes and safety stoppages, dealing a potential blow to the government’s hopes of creating thousands of new jobs in a rejuvenated m...
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The DA’s Ian Ollis reports that during a briefing to the parliamentary portfolio committee on labour about the passage of the four labour bills through Nedlac, the Department of Labour revealed that it had inserted amendments that would make unions lega...
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Unemployed graduates in Gauteng were yesterday invited by the provincial premier to register their details on the Gauteng City Region Academy (GCRA) unemployment database for the 2012 intake. The provincial government said there were internships and schol...
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Tim Harris, Democratic Alliance MP, has welcomed the support of the National Union of Mineworkers for the youth wage subsidy as the most effective way to alleviate youth unemployment. Yet, Cosatu seems to be filibustering the policy proposal through Nedla...
