BDLive reports that Tshwane Democratic Alliance (DA) mayor Solly Msimanga is wielding the axe in the metro and will soon decide on how to purge a bloated staff complement in a bid to slash the municipality’s R6bn salary bill. The city spends 33% of its operating budget on employee costs. Msimanga had...
Cape Times reports that a 27-year-old Kleinvlei man was due to appear in the Blue Downs Magistrate’s Court on Monday morning following his arrest last week for the murder of a metro police officer in February. Ben Koopman was gunned down while on duty. Two people were spotted fleeing from the scene...
Cape Times reports that SA Clothing and Textile Workers’ Union (Sactwu) general secretary André Kriel issued a statement on Sunday, “with the permission of the Cosatu president”, condemning the destruction of university property and calling for an immediate return to classes no later than Monday. Source: Latest News
David McKay writes that, in an interesting illustration of how the increasing number of safety audits on SA’s mines by the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) was getting out of hand, .AngloGold Ashanti CEO, Srinivasan Venkatakrishnan, has compared them to a freeway accident where the authorities had resolved to check...
TMG Digital reports that more than 100 SA Commercial‚ Catering and Allied Workers’ Union (Saccawu) strikers at the Table Mountain cableway will be back at work on Monday after a pay deal ended their wage stoppage. The deal gives staff pay increases of between 8% and 13.5%‚ with lower income earners...
TimesLive reports that tens of thousands of seasonal farmworkers, whose jobs are already on the line because of a crippling drought, are now facing another employment threat in that farmers, who claim they cannot any longer afford the prescribed minimum wages, are choosing to hire cheaper foreign workers. In 2013 the...
TimesLive reports that Steve Msiza, president of the National Trade Union Congress (NTUC), is accusing Road Traffic Management Corporation (RTMC) bosses of trying to hound him into quitting his job as the corporation’s chief of security by bringing a string of “flimsy charges”, including testifying for a colleague in a...
BDLive writes that the SA Transport and Allied Workers’ Union (Satawu) is on the road to recovery and looking to expand after a tumultuous four years in which it suffered two splits, but the union now also faces competition from the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) which has...
Our links page provides references to South African labour news reports we have come across on the Internet from Friday, 30 September to Sunday, 2 October 2016 Source: Latest News
EWN reports that dozens of members of the South African Cabin Crew Association (Sacca) embarked on a protest outside Airways Park in Kempton Park on Friday morning. Source: Latest News
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