Engineering News reports that a three-year wage agreement between the  Building, Construction and Allied Workers Union, the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and the SA Forum of Civil Engineering Contractors has been reached at the Bargaining Council for the Civil Engineering Industry (BCCEI).   Source: Latest News

EWN reports that Zwelinzima Vavi, former general secretary of labour federation Cosatu, on Tuesday said a claim by ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe that the anti-corruption march due to take place in August would be a publicity stunt showed that people who benefited from corruption were hiding their heads in the...

Bloomberg News reports that Telkom, which is fighting unions over a plan to cut jobs, more than doubled its salary bill for executive directors in the 2015 fiscal year.   Source: Latest News

News24 reports that schools in the northern areas of Port Elizabeth were due to re-open on Thursday following protests over the lack of teachers.   Source: Latest News

SABC reports that the Passenger Rail Agency of SA (Prasa) says that it will revisit its recruitment processes and audit all its employees’ qualifications.   Source: Latest News

Business Report writes that Tharisa Plc announced on Monday that a “market-related three-year collective agreement” had been agreed with the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) at its Tharisa Mine at Marikana near Rustenburg.   Source: Latest News

Fin24 reports that Beverley Schäfer, DA Western Cape spokesperson on economic opportunities, tourism and agriculture, said on Tuesday that Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba should be asked why he was not taking heed of the private sector’s concerns regarding the decline in tourist numbers and the resulting outcry by the...

Our links page provides references to South African labour news reports we have come across on the World Wide Web on Tuesday, 28 July 2015. Source: Latest News

Cape Argus reports that on Tuesday morning government officials, principals and MECs in the Eastern Cape met to discuss the future of 23 schools which were closed this week due to a teacher shortage.   Source: Latest News

RDM Newswire reports that Cosatu in Mpumalanga said on Tuesday that the retrenchment of more than 2‚000 breadwinners at Glencore Optimum mine in Middelburg and Evraz Highveld Steel in Witbank would be catastrophic for the provincial and national economies.   Source: Latest News