ANA reports that nine fraudsters, including eight Post Bank employees, were sentenced to an effective 1,680 years combined for defrauding the bank of R6 million, the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (Hawks) said on Thursday. Source: Latest News
Netwerk24 reports that according to Nosey Pieterse, suspended general secretary of Bawusa, factionalism is brewing in the farmworkers’ trade union. Source: Latest News
According to Business Day’s understanding, SA’s 1.3-million public servants will finally get a 7% wage increase following a political intervention on Thursday. Source: Latest News
ANA reports that on Wednesday all municipal workers at the Rustenburg local municipality deserted their workplaces and marched to the municipal offices protesting that they had not received their June salaries. Source: Latest News
Our links page provides references to South African labour news reports we have come across on the World Wide Web on Thursday, 25 June 2015. Source: Latest News
EWN reports that President Jacob Zuma will address the nation this evening and also release the report of the Marikana Commission of Inquiry. Source: Latest News
In our Thursday roundup, see summaries of our selection of South African labour- related stories that have appeared since mid-morning on Wednesday, 24 June 2015. Source: Latest News
Fin24 reports that the High Court in Pretoria has found the directors of Aurora Empowerment Systems, including President Jacob Zuma’s nephew Khulubuse Zuma and former president Nelson Mandela’s grandson Zondwa Mandela, guilty of stripping the assets of the liquidated Pamodzi Gold’s mines. Source: Latest News
Sowetan reports that supporters of expelled Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi will take the fight for his reinstatement at the labour federation to the tripartite alliance summit of the ANC, Cosatu and SA Communist Party starting this weekend. Source: Latest News
BDLive reports that trade unions are suggesting a middle-of-the-road approach to the introduction of a national minimum wage, saying it should not be so high as to disrupt the economy, nor so low that it does not meet workers’ needs. Source: Latest News
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