Fin24 reports that Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan said on Thursday that controversial new retirement fund laws only applied to money saved from 1 April this year.  “Anything you saved up to March this year is not touched.  The old rules still apply,” Gordhan said at a post-Cabinet briefing.   Source: Latest News

The Mercury reports that employees of embattled Durban municipal bus operator Tansnat, desperate to hear when they would be paid, went in numbers to a meeting at the bus depot in Cross Street on Wednesday.   Source: Latest News

SABC News reports that the Democratic Alliance (DA) says it is happy so far with the progress of government’s national Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) in the Western Cape.   Source: Latest News

EWN reports that National Treasury says the claim by labour federation Cosatu that government is nationalising pension funds is ‘nonsense’.   Source: Latest News

EWN reports that the Gauteng Education Department says it is obliged to grant transfer requests of 11 teachers from the Roodepoort Primary School.   Source: Latest News

BDLive reports that a student and staff protest forced the University of SA (Unisa) to shut two Pretoria campuses on Wednesday due to security fears.   Source: Latest News

Business Report writes that about 2,000 mineworkers and contractors stand to lose their jobs as ASA Metals halts operations at its Dilokong chrome mine near Burgersfort in Limpopo.   Source: Latest News

In the wake of Standard Bank economist Chris Hart’s suspension over an alleged racist tweet, his CEO has warned staff that the bank “does not tolerate racism in any form, no matter how casual or trivial”.   Source: Latest News

BDLive reports that a collective bargaining levy agreement in the Metals and Engineering Industries Bargaining Council, under which unions and employer bodies earned millions every year, has expired.   Source: Latest News

Our links page provides references to South African labour news reports we have come across on the Internet on Wednesday, 13 January 2016. Source: Latest News