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Comair 'working around the clock' to resolve wage impasse with Numsa and avert strike
ANA reports that airline Comair said on Friday that it was working around the clock to find a speedy resolution to the wage dispute with the National Union of Metalworkers Union of SA (Numsa). Source: Latest News
Sibanye offers cash advance to eligible mineworkers to mitigate impact of strike
ANA reports that amid an ongoing strike at its local gold operations, Sibanye-Stillwater said on Friday that it would be extending a special cash advance of up to 50% of basic pay to employees in the bargaining unit, if they required it. Source: Latest News
Saftu appalled at possible Edcon liquidation, which could see single biggest loss of jobs in SA history
ANA reports that according to the SA Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu), the crisis facing retail giant Edcon Holdings shows that the presidential Jobs Summit that was meant to cushion SA’s rising unemployment was a sham. Source: Latest News
Class-action silicosis settlement provisionally approved, but faces delays to allow for objections
BusinessLive reports that the Johannesburg High Court on Thursday provisionally approved the R5bn settlement reached between mining companies and workers suffering from silicosis and other occupational lung diseases. Source: Latest News
Prasa closes Pretoria’s Bosman Street station for 40 days for maintenance
News24Wire reports that the Passenger Rail Agency of SA (Prasa) will be carrying out maintenance at Metrorail’s Bosman station in Pretoria, completely closing it to the public for at least 40 days. Source: Latest News
Amcu to remain on strike over wages at Sibanye-Stillwater
Reuters reports that Joseph Mathunjwa, president of the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu), said on Friday that the union’s members at Sibanye-Stillwater’s gold operations would remain on strike. Source: Latest News
National minimum wage act bungle leaves workers exposed to employers wanting to dodge new law
BusinessLive reports that a numbering error in the National Minimum Wage Act has bungled a clause that protects workers from employers who intend to circumvent the new law. Source: Latest News
Afternoon roundup of labour news on Thursday, 13 December 2018
In our afternoon roundup, see summaries of our selection of South African labour- related stories that appeared thus far on Thursday, 13 December 2018. Source: Latest News
Amcu accuses Sibanye-Stillwater of using 'underhand tactics' to end gold wage strike
ANA reports that the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu) has retaliated against Sibanye-Stillwater, saying that the miner had resorted to further “underhanded tactics” in an effort to discredit the legal and protected status of the union’s strike at the producer’s gold operations. Source: Latest News