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TMG Digital writes that data due for release on Wednesday is expected to show consumer price inflation rate (CPI) having lifted to 6% year on year in January from a prior 5.2%. Source: Latest News
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No dividend for three years, more job cuts at Kumba Iron Ore
City Press writes that as a result of slumping iron ore market, Kumba Iron Ore was forced last year to suspend its dividend, cut R4 billion in costs, reduce its net debt by 42% to R4.6 billion and slash thousands of jobs. Source: Latest News
Gideon du Plessis: New labour federation will be a threat to Cosatu
Gideon du Plessis, general secretary of trade union Solidarity, unpacks the dramatic changes that are changing the landscape of SA’s organised labour and writes that in a year’s time, the existing labour scene may look quite different. Source: Latest News
Panic as details of 1,500 state employees posted online after cyber attack
Saturday Star reports that a radical group of online hackers breached the government’s site on Thursday, leaking classified information belonging to hundreds of state employees and exposing them to cybercrime. Source: Latest News
Soldiers suspended after Union Building protest paid R500m since 2009
BDLive reports that according to the South African National Defence Union (Sandu), the Department of Defence has spent R7m a month in salaries for more than 500 soldiers who have been serving suspensions since 2009. Source: Latest News
Government does U-turn over new pension fund laws
City Press reports that government is looking at legal means to shelve or place a moratorium on specific clauses of the Tax Amendment Act relating to retirement fund reform to appease labour federation Cosatu. Source: Latest News
Web links to a selection of labour news reports posted on 13 & 14 February 2016
Our links page provides references to South African labour news reports we have come across on the Internet on Saturday, 13 February and Sunday, 14 February 2016. Source: Latest News
Lily Mine search and rescue operations on hold pending safety assessment
News24 reported on Sunday night that due to another cave in at the Lily mine near Barberton, all search and rescue operations there have been suspended. Source: Latest News
Calls for international experts to be roped in at Lily Mine
EWN reports that the Mpumalanga Premier, the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu) and the Minister of Mineral Resources say international experts will be called in to the Lily Mine to assess the stability of the ground above the area where three workers remain trapped. Source: Latest News
Web links to a selection of labour news reports posted on 12 February 2016
Our links page provides references to South African labour news reports we have come across on the Internet on Friday, 12 February 2016. Source: Latest News