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
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Unpaid EP Kings rugby players struggling to survive
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
SA gets new qualification authority board
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
CWU to protest against Treasury‚ Multichoice and Gupta channel
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
Lily Mine bars media
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
Numsa fires spokesperson Castro Ngobese for absenteeism
The Citizen reports that the spokesperson of the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa), Castro Ngobese, has been “quietly” fired. Source: Latest News
Web links to a selection of labour news reports posted on 22 February 2016
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
City Deep factory fire contained with no injuries
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
JD Group plans to cut over 4,000 more jobs
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
Labour dept research posits range of R2,447 to R3,400 for national minimum wage
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




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