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City Press reports that advocacy group ‘Freedom Under Law’ is preparing to launch an application that seeks to prevent President Jacob Zuma from appointing a permanent national director of public prosecutions. Source: Latest News
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Judgment on release date for Marikana report expected today
EWN reports that judgment in the urgent application to compel President Jacob Zuma to immediately release the Marikana report will be handed down by the North Gauteng High Court on Monday morning. Source: Latest News
Unions to march to Union Buildings over Nkandla, corruption and collapsing parastatals
TimesLive reports that representatives of civil society and eight trade unions siding with the expelled National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) are to march to the Union Buildings. Source: Latest News
Overstretched Numsa ‘trying to move on too many fronts’
Sunday Independent writes that the National Union of Metalworkers of SA’s (Numsa’s) United Front (UF) could be in trouble before it is even launched at the end of this month because the union is over-stretched and moving on too many fronts. Source: Latest News
DA calls urgent meeting to address safety of Joburg firefighters
EWN reports that the Democratic Alliance (DA) has called for a special urgent meeting on the conditions at Johannesburg fire stations and has asked Members of the Mayoral Committee (MMC) on Public Safety as well as the chief and directors of the Emergency Management Services (EMS) to attend. Source: Latest...
Web links to a selection of labour news reports posted on Saturday, 13 June and Sunday, 14 June 2015
Our links page provides references to South African labour news reports we have come across on the World Wide Web on Saturday, 13 June and Sunday, 14 June 2015. Source: Latest News
Unions halt all participation in bargaining council proceedings until 7% wage hike received
BDLive reports that public sector unions said on Friday they would not participate in any national or provincial bargaining council until a dispute with the state over a 0.6% wage claw-back in last month’s wage agreement was resolved. Source: Latest News
Cosatu president promises to quit if voted out at special congress
ANN7 reports that S’dumo Dlamini, president of labour federation Cosatu, says he will quit his position if members vote him out at the organisation’s upcoming special national congress. Source: Latest News
Metrorail increases rail tariffs from 1 July
Rail operator Metrorail has announced countrywide fare increases to come into effect on 1 July. Source: Latest News
MTN gets interdict to prevent strikers from coming within 100m of its business premises
News24 reports that cellphone operator MTN was on Friday granted an interdict by the Labour Court restraining striking employees and participants from coming within a 100 metre radius of any MTN premises for the duration of the current strike. Source: Latest News