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Six former civil servants and a physiotherapist appeared in the Pretoria Magistrates’ Court today for defrauding the Department of Labour’s Compensation Fund of R1m. In relation to this case, they face 15 counts of fraud and 26 counts of money launder...
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With many companies preparing for an annual shutdown period, they are said to be grappling with the issue of employees' annual leave, and specifically the accumulation of leave. While the 2011 PwC South African Employee Benefits Guide released today indi...
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Loane Sharp, labour economist at Adcorp, says there is considerable disagreement over whether SA’s labour laws are restrictive or not. However, in the 2000s SA’s labour productivity was negative and in that regard two labour laws were particularly pro...
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The conversion of medical tax rebates into tax credits would benefit lower-income individuals who belonged to medical aid schemes, according to health analysts. The National Treasury has plans for introducing a tax credit system for medical expense deduct...
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Bidvest Group may face a strike by up to 4,000 workers over pay at its SA Container Depots Freight (SACD) logistics unit, an import and export management company, after the SA Transport and Allied Workers’ Union (Satawu) said talks had deadlocked on Thu...
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Desperate Aurora miners, facing their third bleak Christmas, are circulating a letter in which they plead for food and clothes and in which they allege that the company's directors have used "delaying tactics" to avoid paying them. The letter is on behalf...
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Hundreds of former mineworkers are suing London-listed Anglo American’s South African subsidiary on two continents, in cases that could run into millions of rands in damages, for exposing them to dangerous dust levels. A seven-year case with 18 claimant...
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Some 1,000 of 150,000 Statistics SA’s field workers for the national census have not yet been paid, but the organisation expects everyone to be paid by 15 December. Angry field workers have been gathering at the Stats SA offices in central Cape Town for...
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A report on inter-union rivalry at the SA Post Office (Sapo), with new union the SA Postal Workers’ Union (Sapwu) challenging the position of recognised Cosatu-affiliate the Communication Workers’ Union (CWU). Management has rejected a membership audi...
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The Sunday Independent reports that the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), which is likely to be supported by at least three other of the big Cosatu affiliates, has asked general secretary, Zwelinzima Vavi, to make himself available to serve three more ...
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The liquidators of Pamodzi Gold will next week lay criminal charges against Nelson Mandela's grandson, Zondwa Mandela, for failure to appear before an inquiry by the Master of the High Court in Pretoria on Thursday. The inquiry is investigating the conduc...
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The tolling of the freeways in Gauteng will most likely dominate the transport sector early next year, with government and Cosatu headed for a showdown over the implementation of the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project Phase 1 (GFIP). The union federation...
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The National Professional Teachers' Organisation of SA (Naptosa) has reacted to a high court ruling that a Gauteng public school governing body did not have the unqualified power to determine its admission policy and that the Gauteng education department ...
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The Western Cape’s beleaguered textile and clothing industry has been given a lifeline by the government’s new procurement policy. Both the SA Clothing and Textile Workers Union (Sactwu) and the employers’ body, the Apparel Manufacturers of SA, fore...
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Thousands of 2011 calendars printed by a Johannesburg company, Imagine 121, erroneously marked Tuesday, 27 December, as a public holiday. Some workers may thus think they only have to apply for three days’ leave for the period between Christmas and New...
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Food prices, which increased by just 1% last year, have increased by a whopping 10.6% so far this year. Lower-income South Africans, who spend a greater proportion of their total earnings on food, are the biggest victims of this sharp increase in food-pr...
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Yesterday on the application of union Sactwu, the Western Cape High Court ordered Sam Buthelezi and his colleague Mxolisi Motau of the Trilinear group of companies to appear before the liquidation inquiry into Canyon Springs Investment on 24 January. Cent...
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This article looks at the continuing human and legal aftermath of the botched strike in 2009 by Murray & Roberts Cementation contract workers at Aquarius Platinum’s Kroondal and Marikana mines, which led to mass dismissals. There are many facts in d...
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US companies planning to spend dollars on staff Christmas parties should not bother because most employees would prefer money. Nearly three quarters of 2,574 workers questioned in a poll said they would opt for a cash bonus, while only 4% put a Christmas...
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Cash-strapped provinces such as Limpopo and Gauteng have complained that pay hikes for government employees are among the reasons for their financial troubles. For instance, a draft Limpopo report repeatedly raises the hikes in pay granted to public serv...
