BDLive reports that Parliament’s labour committee on Wednesday rejected a proposed draft bill that would have made trade unions partly responsible for the cost of strike-related violence and damage to property.   Source: Latest News

RDM News Wire reports that a turnaround plan to fix the troubled SA Post Office (Sapo)‚ which is on its knees after a series of labour strikes‚ has been finalised and presented to Cabinet.   Source: Latest News

ANN7 reports that the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) says the country’s mining sector is still lagging behind in health and safety measures.   Source: Latest News

IOL News reports that the SA Police Service (SAPS) said on Thursday that it was set to recruit former officers who had left the organisation.   Source: Latest News

The Constitutional Court has dismissed an application for leave to appeal by trade union Solidarity in the matter of a disputed agreement with Eskom that dates back 17 years.   Source: Latest News

ANN7 reports that forty-two bogus universities and colleges which offered fake and unaccredited programmes have been shut down in the past week, the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) said.   Source: Latest News

RDM News Wire reports that a large number of newly-appointed teachers in the Eastern Cape have not been paid since January‚ according to the Democratic Alliance (DA).   Source: Latest News

eNCA reports that the SA Transport and Allied Workers’ Union (Satawu) claims that comrades of the late Gauteng secretary Chris Nkosi were behind his death.   Source: Latest News

Reuters reports that the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) will push for an 84% rise in basic pay for entry-level gold mining workers, a near 10 percentage-point increase on previous demands.   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, 21 May 2015. Source: Latest News