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• Hotel staff to march over wages

  Created: Tuesday, 01 November 2011 07:16

  Crowne Plaza Rosebank Hotel staff will march tomorrow demanding a wage increase. The Industrial, Commercial and Allied Workers’ Union is seeking a 6.5% increase and overtime pay, which the company says it cannot afford because it owes R3m in rent. Re...

• Aurora boss ‘uses delaying tactics’, says Solidarity

  Created: Tuesday, 01 November 2011 06:47

  Solidarity accused the directors of Aurora Empowerment Systems yesterday of using delaying tactics when an insolvency inquiry into the company was told that MD Zondwa Mandela was too ill to give evidence. Solidarity also revealed that Mandela had claimed ...

• Road repairs put 13,000 to work

  Created: Tuesday, 01 November 2011 04:59

  More than 13,000 jobs have been created through the government's road maintenance programme, the national transport department said on Monday. The programme, launched in April this year, focuses on the maintenance of the secondary road network, using a de...

• Social partners unveil 75% buy-local accord

  Created: Tuesday, 01 November 2011 04:45

  Government, business, labour and community groupings signed a milestone agreement on Monday under which an “aspirational” target of 75% was set for the level of goods and services that should be procured locally by both government and the private sect...

• Cosatu demands clarity on Gauteng e-tolling

  Created: Tuesday, 01 November 2011 04:36

  Cosatu has asked Transport Minister Sibusiso Ndebele to clarify whether his statement to halt work on toll roads included scrapping the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Plan (GFIP), or whether it only applied to future toll roads. The federation has issued a s...

• NUM concludes wage deal with Exxaro

  Created: Tuesday, 01 November 2011 04:28

  The National Union of Mineworkers said yesterday that it had concluded a two-year wage deal with Exxarro Coal covering the Tshikondeni, Leeupan, Inyanda and Grootgeluk operations, entailing wage increases of between 10.5% and 8%. A task team is to be set ...

• Census workers in Durban strike

  Created: Tuesday, 01 November 2011 04:19

  Census workers in Durban downed tools on Monday, complaining they were paid less than their counterparts in other provinces. About 100 workers picketed outside the Census offices, threatening to withhold filled-out questionnaires if their demands were no...

• Xstrata talks with NUM continue as deadline looms

  Created: Tuesday, 01 November 2011 04:10

  With a seven-day deadline looming, negotiations between the National Union of Mineworkers and Xstrata to find a solution to their dispute over the terms of an employee share ownership plan (ESOP) are to continue today. Last Tuesday, the union suspended it...

• ILO warns of global jobs shortage

  Created: Tuesday, 01 November 2011 03:59

  The world economy is likely to create just half of the 80m jobs needed over the next two years, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) said on Monday, warning that the risk of social unrest was rising amid the dire unemployment situation. Most of the...