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• Complicated rules bedevil training lay-off scheme

  Created: Thursday, 01 December 2011 07:29

  The slow roll-out during the past two years of the training lay-off scheme was due to a complicated rule governing its implementation, CMA chief executive Nerine Kahn told parliamentary yesterday. Up to November last year, companies seeking support for t...

• Thousands of Eastern Cape temporary teachers to lose their jobs

  Created: Thursday, 01 December 2011 05:45

  The contracts of more than 4,000 temporary teachers in the Eastern Cape will be terminated by the end of the year, as spelt out in a memo from the education department’s HR director. Yet union Sadtu says this goes against a court order regarding the emp...

• Anglo American to challenge UK jurisdiction in silicosis cases

  Created: Thursday, 01 December 2011 05:20

  Anglo American plans to challenge the jurisdiction of UK courts to hear a claim on behalf of more than 700 former mineworkers suffering from silicosis and other lung diseases. There will be a hearing in the early part of next year to resolve this question...

• President Zuma to unveil new HIV plan today

  Created: Thursday, 01 December 2011 05:12

  President Jacob Zuma will launch a revamped national strategic plan to fight HIV at a World Aids Day event in Port Elizabeth today. Read more at IOL News See also ‘New plan aims to eradicate Aids within 20 years’ on page 6 of The Star print ed...

• Tshwane flouts affirmative action ruling - Solidarity

  Created: Thursday, 01 December 2011 04:59

  Solidarity yesterday accused the Tshwane Municipality of contempt of court after it cancelled a job interview with union member Marco de Sampaio without reason. The interview should have taken place before the end of November in terms of a Labour Court or...

• Economic crime continues to be significant issue for SA organisations

  Created: Thursday, 01 December 2011 04:50

  South African companies have reported a significant increase in tax fraud and market fraud, and to a lesser extent insider trading as well, according to a new report issued by PwC. This increase is also reflected in a shift in the perpetrator profile towa...

• Police special pensions will require Minister’s approval

  Created: Thursday, 01 December 2011 04:32

  Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa is investigating a slew of golden handshakes worth R31m given to policemen on the watch of suspended national commissioner Bheki Cele. In a bid to stop long-running abuse of the police's special pensions system, he has decr...

• Fatality at AngloGold’s Kopanang mine

  Created: Thursday, 01 December 2011 04:22

  A mineworker was fatally injured in a fall of ground accident at AngloGold Ashanti's Kopanang mine near Klerksdorp on Wednesday, the company has reported. The Department of Mineral Resources will visit the mine today to begin an investigation. Based on...