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Responding to the rejection by all four trade unions involved in the gold mining wage negotiations of their wage offers, gold producers said on Tuesday that the unions’ wage demands were unaffordable. Source: Latest News
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SAA warns of cabin crew recruitment scam
Traveller24 reports that South African Airways (SAA) has warned the public about a fake recruitment scam inviting interested parties to apply for training as cabin crew staff with the airline. Source: Latest News
Trade unions await court ruling on Wednesday on Telkom’s planned job cuts
BDLive reports that thousands of Telkom employees will hear on Wednesday whether the company failed to consult staff on planned retrenchments, after the Labour Court in Johannesburg reserved judgment in the case on Tuesday. Source: Latest News
KZN headmen threaten to strike and disrupt polls over nonpayment of stipends
BDLive reports that KwaZulu-Natal’s (KZN’s) 2,039 headmen are threatening to go on strike and disrupt preparations for next year’s local government election unless they get paid. Source: Latest News
UDM wants annual Marikana Day to commemorate 2012 tragedy
TimesLive reports that the United Democratic Movement (UDM) leadership has called for 16 August to be officially commemorated annually as National Marikana Day to respect those who died during the mining protest in 2012. Source: Latest News
Web links to a selection of labour news reports posted on Tuesday, 7 July 2015
Our links page provides references to South African labour news reports we have come across on the World Wide Web on Tuesday, 7 July 2015. Source: Latest News
Western Cape visa centre for executives mooted
BDLive writes that a premium visa and permits centre could be on the cards for the Western Cape, if the province’s investment and tourism agency Wesgro has its way. Source: Latest News
Amcu to declare deadlock on Wednesday if gold producers don’t improve wage offer
Bloomberg News reports that the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu) said on Tuesday that gold producing companies need to improve their pay offers in the current wage talks or the union will declare a deadlock. Source: Latest News
Decision on Wednesday in Solidarity’s court bid to stop Telkom retrenchments
Business Report writes that the Labour Court in Johannesburg has postponed until Wednesday judgement in trade union Solidarity’s urgent application to stop retrenchments at Telkom. Source: Latest News
Facilitator in municipal wage dispute proposes 7% wage hike
Business Report writes that, in an attempt to end the dispute in the local government wage negotiations, a facilitator has proposed a three-year deal which would see workers get an increase of 7% for the first year. Source: Latest News