EWN reports that the Federation of Unions of SA (Fedusa) was requested to attend the New York 2016 South Africa Tomorrow Investor Conference that will be held in New York on 4 and 5 October 2016.  Minister of Finance Pravin Gordhan will lead the social partnership delegation consisting of the SA...

Business Report writes that the families of three mineworkers trapped underground at Vantage Goldfields’ Lily Gold Mine near Barberton since February have given up hope of the retrieval of their relatives’ mortal remains.  This comes after another attempt to retrieve their bodies by Mine Rescue Services revealed the 600m rescue shaft...

Netwerk24 reports that on Tuesday afternoon the Department of Health in the Northern Cape will be challenging the National Education Health and Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu) with an urgent interdict application in the high court to halt any further disruptive conduct.  This will follow the chaos that took place on Monday...

HeraldLive reports that a Nelson Mandela Bay municipal official was killed on Sunday in a shootout in Motherwell between robbers and a security escort assigned to protect refuse collection staff.  A suspect was also shot dead.  Detectives will be investigating whether the incident was linked to the ongoing feud between the municipality...

The Citizen reports that the message delivered in the joint protest by the Democratic Alliance (DA) and Congress of the People (Cope) at the SA Broadcasting Corporation’s headquarters in Auckland Park on Monday morning was that Hlaudi Motsoeneng must go and the existing SABC board must be disbanded.  Motsoeneng took up...

Our links page provides references to South African labour news reports we have come across on the Internet on Monday, 3 October 2016 Source: Latest News

ANA reports that the SA Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu) is mobilising its members to join Cosatu’s national one-day strike on Friday, 7 October 2016, during the International Day of Action.  The labour federation will be demanding an outright ban on labour brokers, the scrapping of the e-tolling system and a concerted...

The New Age reports that the National Health Education and Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu) was due to take its war against the crisis in health care in Limpopo to the premier’s office on Monday.  It organised a march to demand a response to its memorandum handed over in February 2016 on...

Mining Weekly reports that the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and Impala Platinum (Implats) have reached a two-year wage deal, effective July 2016 until June 2018, for workers at the company’s refinery in Springs.   Source: Latest News

ANA reports that the City of Cape Town has rewarded 24 of its Women at Work Programme participants with permanent positions in its road maintenance division.  They come from across the city metropole and are now part of Transport for Cape Town’s permanent staff.  The women will assist road depots with...