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News24 reports that Mineral Resources Minister Ngoako Ramatlhodi will replace the late Collins Chabane as public service and administration minister, President Jacob Zuma said on Tuesday. Source: Latest News
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FMF’s challenge to compulsory extension of bargaining council agreements delayed until 2016
BDLive reports that the Free Market Foundation (FMF) said on Tuesday its Constitutional Court challenge to the constitutionality of Section 32 of the Labour Relations Act, which compels the Department of Labour to extend agreements reached in bargaining councils, is now likely to be heard in February 2016 instead of...
Legal Aid fails to get ruling on Marikana miners’ legal costs reversed
Mail & Guardian reports that a final bid by Legal Aid SA (LASA) to overturn a high court judgment compelling it to give representation to the injured and arrested Marikana miners has failed in the Constitutional Court. Source: Latest News
Solidarity report highlights that Nkandla just tip of graft iceberg in SA
The Star reports that, according to trade union Solidarity, which has released a report detailing 10 corruption scandals that have cost taxpayers millions of rand, there are corruption cases in South Africa that are far more serious and pervasive than the Nkandla scandal. Source: Latest News
Web links to a selection of labour news reports posted on Tuesday, 22 September 2015
Our links page provides references to South African labour news reports we have come across on the Internet on Tuesday, 22 September 2015. Source: Latest News
Midday roundup of labour news on Tuesday, 22 September 2015
In our Tuesday roundup, see summaries of our selection of South African labour- related stories that have appeared since mid-morning on Monday, 21 September 2015. Source: Latest News
Ekhuruleni municipal workers will get 7% wage hike, says Salga
The New Age reports that the Ekhuruleni metropolitan municipality will offer workers a 7% wage increase, according to the South African Local Government Association (Salga). Source: Latest News
‘We’re making good money and we will kill for it’, says illegal miner
Sowetan writes about Thabiso, a Lesotho illegal miner, who last slept on a normal bed almost two years ago and can barely remember the last time he had a full body scrub. But back in his village in Lesotho they call him a “millionaire”, all thanks to his hustle on South...
Sace: Complaints against teachers more than doubled in a year
News24 reports that the SA Council for Educators (Sace) said on Monday that complaints against teachers have more than doubled in the last financial year. Source: Latest News
ArcelorMittal SA’s new workers’ trust leaves unions cold
Business Report writes that two unions have rejected ArcelorMittal SA’s (Amsa’s) black empowerment scheme. Solidarity, which mainly represents white workers, and the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa), which mainly represents black workers, both aired their grievances with the scheme yesterday. Source: Latest News