City Press reports that state oil and gas company PetroSA and its suspended CEO Nosizwe Nokwe-Macamo have parted ways. Source: Latest News
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Tripartite alliance is dead and exists only in name, says Motlanthe
BDLive reports that former president Kgalema Motlanthe said this past weekend that the tripartite alliance was dead and whoever believed otherwise was delusional. Source: Latest News
Is government work becoming a part-time job?
City Press writes that the use of part-time workers in all spheres of government is escalating wildly and more than cancelling out the effect of a freeze on new permanent positions in provincial departments. Source: Latest News
An Amcu gold strike could sound death-knell for NUM
Jan de Lange writes that the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) could collapse completely within the next six months in its struggle against the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu). Source: Latest News
KZN teacher ‘bought’ job for R1,000 a month, but his salary ceased when he stopped paying
City Press reports that Nkonzwenhle Mqadi related last week how he had “bought” his job at Sophie Phewa Primary School, about 20km south of central Durban, for a R12,000 bribe. Source: Latest News
Satawu boss flees union meeting in Durban
Sowetan reports that a top official of the SA Transport and Allied Workers’ Union (Satawu) had to use a back door to flee as about 200 furious members burst into the union’s special meeting in Durban on Friday. Source: Latest News
Body recovered at diamond mine outside Kimberley
SABC News reports that searchers have recovered the body of a mineworker and are looking for others after an incident at a diamond mine in Windsorton outside Kimberley. Source: Latest News
Minimum wage boost for EPWP participants
RDM Newswire reports that the prescribed minimum wage of Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) participants has increased to R78.86 from R75.10 per day or per task performed. Source: Latest News
Wits University agrees to end outsourcing services
BDLive reports that, following intense protests, the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) on Sunday committed to doing away with outsourcing of services, including cleaning and security. Source: Latest News
Web links to a selection of labour news reports posted on 31 October and 1 November 2015
Our links page provides references to South African labour news reports we have come across on the Internet on Saturday, 31 October and Sunday, 1 November 2015. Source: Latest News




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