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Moneyweb reports that Bridgestone has proposed the closure of its 84-year-old manufacturing plant in Port Elizabeth and on Thursday issued Section 189 retrenchment notices to around 250 employees at the facility. Source: Latest News
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Mango CEO Nico Bezuidenhout resigns to take up position with overseas airline
BL Premium reports that the CEO of SAA’s low-cost airline Mango resigned on Wednesday, delivering another blow to SA’s state-owned airline sector. Source: Latest News
High-level Nedlac working group on Covid-19 economic recovery plan to begin meeting next week
Mining Weekly reports that the first formal meeting of the small multi-stakeholder working group set up to finalise SA’s Covid-19 economic recovery plan is expected to take place next week. Source: Latest News
Public enterprises minister wants to strengthen his legal power to remove SOE boards
BL Premium reports that the Department of Public Enterprises (DPE), the custodian of SA’s state-owned companies (SOEs), wants to increase the power of the minister over parastatal boards by giving him the authority to dissolve them and step in when things go wrong. Source: Latest News
Afternoon roundup of labour news on Wednesday, 19 August 2020
In our afternoon roundup, see summaries of our selection of South African labour- related stories that appeared thus far on Wednesday, 19 August 2020. Source: Latest News
‘Basic Condition of Employment Act needs a revamp for working remotely’
In a letter to Business Day, Michael Bagraim, DA shadow employment and labour minister, thanks Solidarity’s Gideon Du Plessis for pointing out some of the pros and cons of working remotely and goes on to opine that it is about time SA looks at atypical employment. Source: Latest News
Benefits can outweigh drawbacks in new remote workplace reality, says Gideon du Plessis
In an opinion piece, Gideon du Plessis, general secretary of Solidary, writes that the Covid-19 pandemic has modernised thinking about the workplace because the notion that “work” is something one does and not a place one goes is a major mind shift that is setting in. Source: Latest News
Will SA’s executives expect their bonuses, despite Covid-19’s effects?
Warren Thompson writes that 2020 is proving to be a litmus test for a number of governance issues at SA corporates, but it will be to see how executive pay at companies most exposed to the general state of the economy adapts to profitability post Covid-19. Source: Latest News
Western Cape’s Red Dot Taxi Service gets a big thumbs up from healthcare workers
Cape Argus reports that the Red Dot Taxi Service, an initiative between the Transport and Public Works Department and the taxi industry, has provided more than 47,000 trips for healthcare workers, driving over 730,00km and servicing 25 health facilities across the Western Cape. Source: Latest News
Western Cape paramedics attacked in hoax call to Gugulethu
Cape Argus reports that the Western Cape department of health has condemned an attack on two paramedics who were responding to a call in Gugulethu this past weekend. Source: Latest News