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News24 reports that Parliament’s disgruntled National Education Health and Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu) members called a truce with management by going back to work on Thursday. Source: Latest News
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Suspended SABC journalists’ disciplinary hearings start on Friday morning
TMG Digital reports that the disciplinary hearings against three SA Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) journalists who had been charged with misconduct started on Friday morning. Source: Latest News
Wage talks between Numsa and auto component firms break down
Reuters reports that wage talks between the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) and employers in the auto component sector hit a deadlock on Friday. Source: Latest News
Durban construction worker ‘pushed’ to death off building, colleague arrested
News24 reports that police are investigating the murder of a construction worker who plunged to his death at a Durban construction site on Currie Road on Thursday. Source: Latest News
Popcru hands over demands to three Eastern Cape departments at march on Thursday
DispatchLive reports that the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (Popcru) in the Eastern Cape has given government seven days to respond to demands by its members employed in the security cluster. Source: Latest News
Less tension expected in upcoming wage talks in platinum sector
Financial Mail writes that wage negotiations this year in the platinum sector are quite likely to progress more smoothly than in the recent past, despite some early warning signals. Source: Latest News
Public Investment Corporation’s investment policies anger Cosatu
Bloomberg reports that labour federation Cosatu says it will step up pressure on the Public Investment Corporation (PIC), which manages the pension funds of state employees, to invest more aggressively in infrastructure and other projects to alleviate poverty. Source: Latest News
Looming layoffs at Times Media could see 65 jobs lost
The New Age reports that looming retrenchments at the Times Media Group may leave 65 employees without jobs in two months. Source: Latest News
Nzimande opens new TVET College in Thabazimbi
SABC News reports that the youth of Thabazimbi in Limpopo have welcomed the opening of a Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) college in their area. Source: Latest News
EFF, Tshwane Metro lock horns on Thursday over contract workers
ANA reports that two Tshwane deputy city managers participated in a heated meeting with members of the EFF and the #OutsourcingMustFall movement on Thursday after scores of contracted workers blocked off the city’s Isivuno head office, demanding permanent jobs. Source: Latest News