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Trade union Solidarity announced on Monday that it had entered into an ‘historic’ wage agreement with the SA Engineers and Founders Association (Saefa) within the Metal and Engineering Industries Bargaining Council (MEIBC). Source: Latest News
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Armed robbers assault, pepper spray and rob staff and patients at Mpumalanga clinic on Sunday
News24 reports that Mpumalanga police have launched a manhunt for armed robbers who assaulted, pepper sprayed and robbed staff and patients at the Empumelelweni Clinic in Vosman on Sunday morning. Source: Latest News
KwaZulu-Natal paramedic shot dead on Sunday while inside ambulance while assisting gunshot victim
News24 reports that a KwaZulu-Natal paramedic was shot and killed while attending to a shooting victim in the Estcourt area in the early hours of Monday morning. Source: Latest News
Mandatory Covid-19 vaccination not necessarily an infringement on rights, says SAHRC
News24 reports that according to the SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC), a general law mandating Covid-19 vaccination in SA would not necessarily be a human rights infringement. Source: Latest News
Four KZN cops attacked in 48 hours, one dead, another in critical condition
News24 reports that four KwaZulu-Natal police officers came under fire in separate incidents in just 48-hours, leaving one officer dead and another in critical care. Source: Latest News
Solidarity’s Gideon du Plessis says in wake of Mining Charter ruling, mining houses must take the initiative to empower employees and communities
Gideon du Plessis, trade union Solidarity’s general secretary, writes that in its recent ruling on the 2018 Mining Charter, the High Court concluded that the charter should not be seen as legislation but as policy. Source: Latest News
Mboweni laments that corruption undermined SA’s Covid-19 response
BL Premium reports that former finance minister Tito Mboweni has conceded that the preventive measures put in place by the government to prevent the looting of resources meant for its response to the Covid-19 pandemic had been insufficient. Source: Latest News
SA government ‘revokes’ its support for Mthunzi Mdwaba’s bid to lead International Labour Organisation
BL Premium reports that SA businessperson Mthunzi Mdwaba says he finds it “quite bizarre and odd” that the SA government has revoked its support for his candidacy to become the next director-general of the International Labour Organisation (ILO). Source: Latest News
Uasa demands answers from Public Enterprises Minister regarding nonpayment of Denel employees
Engineering News reports that trade union Uasa has demanded that Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) Minister Pravin Gordhan clarify issues regarding the nonpayment of employees at state-owned enterprise (SOE) Denel. Source: Latest News
Numsa to go ahead on Tuesday with metals and engineering wage strike after talks on Sunday collapsed
BL Premium reports that the industrial action planned by the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) in the metals and engineering industries sector is set to start with a march to the bargaining council in Johannesburg on Tuesday. Source: Latest News