Reuters reports that gold producer Harmony Gold said on Tuesday it aimed to minimise redundancies at the loss-making Doornkop mine it is trying to revamp, after the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said 3,000 jobs could be lost.   Source: Latest News

Fin24 reports that the axe has begun to fall at the Department of Labour’s troubled Compensation Fund amid calls for more “drastic measures’’ to be taken.   Source: Latest News

BDLive reports that Frans Baleni, general secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), is due to face a challenge for his position at the union’s national congress which kicks off on Wednesday.   Source: Latest News

Fin24 reports that public sector unions on Tuesday threatened to abandon a recent wage hike deal after the government said it would raise salaries by 6.4% for the first of a three-year deal and not by 7% as agreed last month.   Source: Latest News

Apologies, but due to unforeseen circumstances, we will not be able to post any labour stories today or Saturday.  Our regular postings will resume on Sunday. SA Labour News Source: Latest News

eNCA reports that train routes in Pretoria were disrupted on Thursday morning due to a march by members of the South African Transport and Allied Workers’ Union (Satawu).   Source: Latest News

Business Report writes that the strike at cellphone operator MTN SA is set to drag into a second week as the company and the Communication Workers Union (CWU) are fighting over an arbitrator to resolve the industrial action and the union is also threatening a “sympathy strike”.   Source: Latest News

News24 reports that the former general secretary of labour federation Cosatu, Zwelinzima Vavi, said on Wednesday that the unemployment figures released by Statistics SA revealed a horror story of unbelievably bad news for workers and the South African economy.   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, 27 May 2015. 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, 26 May 2015. Source: Latest News