BL Premium reports that state-owned airline SA Express has completely run out of cash and is expected to be among the first organisations to apply to the UIF temporary employee relief scheme (Ters) for assistance, under the expedited Covid-19 benefit.   Source: Latest News

BusinessLive reports that cracks are beginning to show in the previously united front between public-service unions on what action to take against the government to compel it to increase public servants’ salaries on 1 April.   Source: Latest News

Engineering News reports that a network of organisations representing informal workers in SA – who number about five-million – has lamented the lack of recognition of the challenges the sector faces in light of the Covid-19 pandemic.   Source: Latest News

Miningmx reports that SA’s coal mines and platinum group metal (PGM) processing facilities will continue to operate, albeit at reduced levels, during the 21-day lockdown due to start at midnight on 26 March.   Source: Latest News

The Star reports that prisoners could be left vulnerable during the 21-day national lockdown as angry warders in fear of their lives have threatened strike action over an alleged lack of protection from coronavirus.   Source: Latest News

BusinessLive reports that the government and the courts are gearing up for possible urgent legal challenges to the state’s emergency lockdown regulations, which have been formulated in response to the global Covid-19 pandemic.   Source: Latest News

Financial Mail writes that SA’s aviation sector will emerge from the current economic crisis in a very different shape to what it was a month ago.   Source: Latest News

BusinessLive reports that doctors are pleading for the medical regulator to allow them to consult via video and voice calls to keep vulnerable patients safe at home and ensure that those with Covid-19 symptoms don’t come into busy waiting rooms.   Source: Latest News

In our afternoon roundup, see summaries of our selection of South African labour- related stories that appeared thus far on Wednesday, 25 March 2020. Source: Latest News

BL Premium reports that Remgro chair Johann Rupert says the preferred route for the disbursement of his family’s R1bn donation to assist small businesses will be through Business Partners, a company he founded and co-owns.   Source: Latest News