Fin24 reports that South African salary earners on average took home 7.5% more in pay in March than a year ago, way above the 4% inflation increase for the same month, the BankservAfrica Disposable Salary Index (BDSI) showed on Wednesday.   Source: Latest News

Times Live reports that human rights investigators arrived on Wednesday in Worcester, Western Cape, after gardeners working in mostly white suburbs were issued with green ID cards.   Source: Latest News

BDLive reports that Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) is to retrench 474 workers as part of a restructuring plan, which was first originated in 2013, causing waves in political and union circles at that time.   Source: Latest News

IOL News reports that the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) has approached the High Court in Durban to challenge the eThekwini municipality’s decision to cancel the union’s planned May Day march on Friday.   Source: Latest News

News24 reports that the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Transport said on Wednesday that the train crash that left one person dead and over 200 injured in Denver, Johannesburg, on Tuesday morning could have been a result of negligence.   Source: Latest News

Business Report writes that a wage agreement for municipal workers is not on the cards anytime soon following the SA Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu) rejecting the latest offer from the SA Local Government Association (Salga), which represents municipalities.   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, 29 April 2015. Source: Latest News

ANA reports that the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu) denied on Wednesday that it had sold out workers when it signed an agreement with Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) for retrenchments.   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, 28 April 2015. Source: Latest News

Mail & Guardian reports that Parliament’s portfolio committee on home affairs has asked difficult questions concerning the messy problem of xenophobia.   Source: Latest News