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News24 reports that Nkosinathi Mabhida, deputy president of the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (Popcru), on Wednesday encouraged police to “use the guns on their hips” when faced with criminals. Source: Latest News
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Cosatu will still consider Numsa’s expulsion appeal at congress
BDLive reports that Cosatu will still consider the National Union of Metalworkers of SA’s (Numsa’s) appeal against its expulsion from the labour federation, despite the union having indicated that it had abandoned the matter. Source: Latest News
Small businesses ‘bleeding jobs’, says CCMA
The New Age reports that the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) says that, although the small business sector is viewed as the engine to drive growth and create jobs, it has experienced a major increase in retrenchment cases in the past two years. Source: Latest News
Parliament tells National Skills Authority to bring Setas in line with objectives
Fin24 reports that the National Skills Authority (NSA) has been told to “concentrate” and bring the country’s Sector Education and Training Authorities (Setas) in line with its objective of getting people learning on the job in critical skills. Source: Latest News
Employment Equity Act opaque, ConCourt hears in Solidarity’s case against DCS
BDLive reports that both sides to a dispute on employment equity heard by the Constitutional Court on Wednesday agreed it was very difficult to interpret what the Employment Equity Act meant in practice. Source: Latest News
Chasm at Nedlac between labour and business over minimum wage widens
The Star writes that an agreement on a national minimum wage is unlikely anytime soon, with a Cosatu document revealing hat labour and business are at least R2,000 a month apart on what they each want. Source: Latest News
Domestics laugh at ‘petty’ minimum wage increase
HeraldLive writes that full-time Port Elizabeth domestic workers have laughed off the 49c per hour increase announced by Labour Minister Mildred Oliphant. Source: Latest News
Strike over agency shop fees at can maker may hurt Coca-Cola
Business Report writes that the supply of Coca-Cola cans might be disrupted over the festive season following the failure of a local can maker and union Fawu to break a stalemate in a deadlock over remittance of agency shop fees. Source: Latest News
SA fires 47 soldiers serving as UN peacekeepers
News24 reports that the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) announced on Wednesday that it had dismissed 47 soldiers serving in the UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Source: Latest News
Web links to a selection of labour news reports posted on 18 November 2015
Our links page provides references to South African labour news reports we have come across on the Internet on Wednesday, 18 November 2015. Source: Latest News