The Star reported on Wednesday that thousands of contract workers across the country are racing to save their jobs after the implementation of labour law amendments the beginning of the year start having an effect.   Source: Latest News

SABC News reports that trade union Solidarity has become the first union to submit its gold and coal wage demands to the Chamber of Mines for this year’s wage negotiations.   Source: Latest News

EWN reports that National Police Commissioner Riah Phiyega says the organisation is ready to accept and implement the recommendations of the Farlam Commission of Inquiry.   Source: Latest News

BDLive reports that Cosatu-aligned public sector unions have resolved to reject a 5.8% wage offer from the government during conciliation next week.   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, 8 April 2015. Source: Latest News

BDLive reports that Cosatu’s second deputy president Zingiswa Losi has launched a scathing attack against the labour federation’s former general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi, comparing him to Nazi Germany’s Joseph Goebbels.   Source: Latest News

Members of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) stopped working at Anglo American’s Kleinkopje coal mine in Mpumalanga on Wednesday, demanding the removal of the general manager.   Source: Latest News

Mining Weekly Online reports that the management of the BHP Billiton-managed Hotazel manganese operations in the Northern Cape and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) have jointly agreed that an unprotected strike be ended.   Source: Latest News

Public sector unions were due to meet in four provinces on Wednesday to receive report backs on wage talks with the government and decide on a way forward.   Source: Latest News

Daily News reports that the government’s much-vaunted plan to grow SA’s shipping industry has hit a major snag, with hundreds of jobs recently being shed instead of created.   Source: Latest News