News24 reports that staff at the University of Pretoria (UP) say they fear for their safety as violent protests continued at the institution on Monday.   Source: Latest News

HeraldLive reports that EP Kings rugby players have gone from living the high life with annual salaries of up to R1.85-million to selling their assets to survive.   Source: Latest News

ANA reports that the Ministry of Higher Education and Training on Monday appointed twelve education experts to sit on the board of the South African Qualification Authority (SAQA).   Source: Latest News

TMG Digital reports that the Communication Workers Union will hold a picket outside Parliament while Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan delivers his Budget speech on Wednesday.   Source: Latest News

The New Age writes that mystery surrounds the rescue operation at Lily Mine in Mpumalanga as the mine on Sunday backtracked on its plans to allow media to tour the collapsed area.   Source: Latest News

The Citizen reports that the spokesperson of the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa), Castro Ngobese, has been “quietly” fired.   Source: Latest News

Our links page provides references to South African labour news reports we have come across on the Internet on Monday, 22 February 2016. Source: Latest News

EWN reports that a fire that broke out during the early hours of Monday morning and ripped through an entire factory building has been contained.   Source: Latest News

Business Report writes that the JD Group, SA’s biggest furniture retailer, is planning to cut 4,110 jobs as part of a major shake-up of its portfolio in which it envisages the closing and rebranding of almost 500 stores.   Source: Latest News

City Press Business reports that new research commissioned by the Department of Labour has presented R3,400 per month as an “empirically reasonable upper-limit estimate” of what the promised national minimum wage (NMW) could be.   Source: Latest News