Today's Labour News
This news aggregator site highlights South African labour news from a wide range of internet and print sources. Each posting has a synopsis of the source article, together with a link or reference to the original. Postings cover the range of labour related matters from industrial relations to generalist human resources.
Last Update: 19-11-2025
SA Labour News
With 355 000 jobs lost in first quarter, extraordinary solutions needed
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Cape Times reports that the government has been urged to acknowledge that its unemployment policies have failed and that it needs to do something about the crisis that cost 355,000 people their jobs in the first quarter of 2016.
Web links to a selection of labour news reports posted on 9 May 2016
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Our links page provides references to South African labour news reports we have come across on the Internet on Monday, 9 May 2016
Roundup of labour news on 9 May 2016
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In our Monday roundup, see summaries
of our selection of South African labour-
related stories that have appeared since
midday on Friday, 6 May 2016.
FMF loses collective bargaining case, but claims victory for future challenges
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City Press writes that the Free Market Foundation’s (FMF’s) court challenge against the extension to nonparties of bargaining council wage deals was quashed last week, but the judges also identified all the actual ways that these extensions could be legally challenged.
Links between state spooks and the formation of bogus mining union WAU
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City Press reported in April about a civil claim of R120 million instituted by a founding member of the Workers’ Association Union (WAU), Thebe Maswabi, against President Jacob Zuma, State Security Minister David Mahlobo, two other national ministers and the acting police commissioner.