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Strike action against cellphone operator MTN South Africa has not ended yet, the company confirmed on Tuesday. Source: Latest News
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Crunch talks this week over deadlocked municipal wage negotiations
ANA reports that the SA Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu) and the SA Local Government Association (Salga) have reached a deadlock in wage negotiations, the union indicated on Tuesday. Source: Latest News
Police probe ex-Nedlac boss who is now Labour Minister’s special advisor
Sowetan writes that former Nedlac boss Herbert Mkhize, now Labour Minister Mildred Oliphant’s special adviser, allegedly blew R1.5-million of taxpayers’ money on flights for himself and his wife, groceries, nappies, toys, toilet paper and traffic fines, among other things when he was at Nedlac. Source: Latest News
Metrorail's annual fare hike kicks in on Wednesday
EWN reports that Metrorail’s annual fare increases kick in countrywide on Wednesday. Source: Latest News
SA lost 44,000 jobs in first quarter: StatsSA
BDLive reports that a total of 44,000 South Africans lost their jobs in the first quarter of this year, with stubbornly slow economic growth and the power crisis cited as factors contributing to the dire development. Source: Latest News
Web links to a selection of labour news reports posted on Tuesday, 30 June 2015
Our links page provides references to South African labour news reports we have come across on the World Wide Web on Tuesday, 30 June 2015. Source: Latest News
AngloGold employee killed in fall-of-ground incident at Kopanang mine
Mining Weekly Online reports that a rock-drill operator was killed in a fall-of-ground incident at AngloGold Ashanti’s Kopanang mine, near Orkney, in the Free State, on Tuesday. Source: Latest News
Mid-morning roundup of labour news on Tuesday, 30 June 2015
In our Tuesday roundup, see summaries of our selection of South African labour- related stories that have appeared since mid-morning on Monday, 29 June 2015. Source: Latest News
Gold mining strike could be on the cards
The New Age writes that a strike in the gold mining sector could be on the cards in the wake of the rejection by unions on Monday of the wage offers made by gold producers. Source: Latest News
Marikana report outcome an insult to victims' families, says DA’s Maimane
The Citizen reports that according to Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Mmusi Maimane, who visited Marikana on Monday, it is an insult to the families of the 34 mineworkers shot by police that three years later not a single person has been criminally prosecuted or taken political responsibility for the tragic...