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News24 reports that the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (Popcru) on Saturday said it was “severely disturbed” by conditions at Pollsmoor Prison. Source: Latest News
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Unemployment compounded by lack of post-school education opportunities: Radebe
RDM News Wire reports that Minister in the Presidency Jeff Radebe said on Sunday that, while unemployment in South Africa was exacerbated by a lack of appropriate skills‚ it was also compounded by the shortage of suitable post-school education opportunities. Source: Latest News
Costs of safety stoppages bite miners, but also contribute to drop in mining deaths
BDLive reports that safety stoppages ordered by the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) have cost mines more than R13.6bn in lost revenue since 2012. Source: Latest News
Religious rights group enters fray over lesbian pastor’s employment rights
Weekend Argus reports that religious rights organisation Freedom of Religion (FOR SA) has entered the fray between lesbian minister Ecclesia de Lange and the Methodist Church, saying the court must appreciate the more than 2,000-year-old doctrinal position of the church. Source: Latest News
State creates employment agency for jobs in both public and private sectors
City Press reports that government has officially opened up its own employment agency to help jobless people find work. Called the Public Employment Service, the agency will have desks in labour department offices countrywide, which will enable jobseekers to apply for jobs in both the public and private sector. Source: Latest...
Retrenched Optimum miners take Glencore to CCMA for not complying with social and labour plan
Sowetan reports that hundreds of workers, who were laid off in July by mining giant Glencore’s subsidiary Optimum Coal, have hauled the company before the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) for unfair dismissal. Source: Latest News
Motsoaledi considering report on ‘bloated, bureaucratic, dysfunctional’ Health Professions Council
Kerry Cullinan writes that the Health Professions Council of SA (HPCSA) is notorious for its inefficiency, but the Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi finally has an opportunity to reform this Byzantine monster. Source: Latest News
NUM seems ready to accept gold wage offer, while Harmony’s offer a problem for Amcu
The New Age reports that the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) says it is ready to accept the wage offer tabled by gold producers last week, while the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu) has expressed its misgivings about Harmony Gold’s proposed wage increase. Source: Latest News
Motshekga takes on Sadtu’s ‘inappropriate influence’ over education
City Press writes that war has been declared between the SA Democratic Teachers’ Union (Sadtu) and Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga and her provincial MECs, with Sadtu vowing it would defeat them as it had defeated apartheid, and the MECs saying the union should no longer be allowed to “disrupt”...
Web links to a selection of labour news reports posted on Saturday, 19 September and Sunday, 20 September 2015
Our links page provides references to South African labour news reports we have come across on the Internet on Saturday, 19 September and Sunday, 20 September 2015. Source: Latest News