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Reuters reports that platinum producer Lonmin will continue to review its services and reduce costs, mainly through cutting jobs, as the slide in the price of its main commodity bites further. Source: Latest News
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More than 1,000 jobs at three Northern Cape mines at risk
Netwerk24 reports that job losses of more than 1,000 posts at three iron ore mines in the Kathu area of Northern Cape are foreseen as three mining companies announced that they were going to undertake restructuring. Source: Latest News
Farmworkers casualties of shifts in food business, government policies
TimesLive report that the International Labour Organisation (ILO) has fingered the rise of super-retailers, government policies and laws, and profound global changes in the food business as key reasons why farmworkers are still struggling to improve their lives. Source: Latest News
TUT campus remains closed on Thursday as outsourcing protests continue
EWN reports that the Tshwane University of Technology (TUT)’s Pretoria West campus remained closed on Thursday as outsourcing demonstrators continued to blockade the main entrance. Source: Latest News
Amcu claims substandard safety equipment, procedures led to Implats deaths
Mining Weekly Online reports that Joseph Mathunjwa, president of the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu), said on Wednesday that the deaths of four miners at Impala Platinum’s (Implats’) Rustenburg mine was the consequence of “clandestine observance of safety procedures and poor investment in health and safety equipment by...
Zuma to Cosatu: New retirement fund law is going ahead, like it or not
TMG Digital writes that President Jacob Zuma on Wednesday effectively told Cosatu that the new retirement fund annuitisation provisions contained in recently approved tax laws are going to be implemented despite its opposition. Source: Latest News
Kumba to cut almost 4,000 jobs in restructuring of Sishen iron ore mine
BDLive reports that Kumba Iron Ore has embarked on restructuring its flagship Sishen mine, affecting 2,633 of its staff and 1,300 contractor employees. Source: Latest News
DA jobs march brings Joburg city centre to standstill
TimesLive reports that the Democratic Alliance (DA) made an impressive show of force in the Johannesburg city centre on Wednesday as an estimated 20, 000 of its members marched to demand jobs. Source: Latest News
Gauteng’s R4.5m budget for bursaries in critical skills fields
TimesLive reports that in a bid to address the critical shortage of skills, the Gauteng department of infrastructure and development has committed to a R4.5-million budget for its bursary project. Source: Latest News
Web links to a selection of labour news reports posted on 27 January 2016
Our links page provides references to South African labour news reports we have come across on the Internet on Wednesday, 27 January 2016. Source: Latest News