Fin24 reports that headline consumer price inflation (CPI) year-on-year in June 2015 was 4.7%, Stats SA announced on Wednesday. Source: Latest News

Mining giant Glencore said on Wednesday that union allegations that female employees were being targeted for retrenchment at Optimum colliery were baseless and that female employees make up 15% of the total affected employees.   Source: Latest News

Our links page provides references to South African labour news reports we have come across on the World Wide Web on Wednesday, 22 July 2015. Source: Latest News

News24 reports that the Department of Health has issued a stern warning to emergency medical services (EMS) staff in KwaZulu-Natal who threatened to embark on a wildcat strike on Wednesday.   Source: Latest News

News24 reports that an interim interdict sought by the City of Johannesburg to ensure that firefighters work their full hours was granted in the Labour Court on Wednesday morning.   Source: Latest News

In our Wednesday roundup, see summaries of our selection of South African labour- related stories that have appeared since mid-morning on Tuesday, 21 July 2015. Source: Latest News

Mining Weekly Online writes that Kumba Iron Ore has taken the knife to 1,772 jobs as low iron-ore prices cut a swathe through the industry.   Source: Latest News

BDLive reports that the African National Congress (ANC) in Gauteng is looking at ways to increase the power of workers in directing where and how their pensions are invested, in a bid to transform the country’s economy.   Source: Latest News

Mining Weekly Online writes that gold producer AngloGold Ashanti on Wednesday reported a fatality at its Moab Khotsong mine, near Orkney, in the Free State.   Source: Latest News

Fin24 reports that the Communication Workers Union (CWU) has pulled out of the group of Cosatu affiliates calling itself the “nine plus unions” on the basis that it does not want to be “entrenching division”.   Source: Latest News