Thought Leadership
Thought Leadership News 30 January, 2017 Trade Union Movement How can women’s trade union membership be improved and what are the unions’ priorities regarding the discussion on the future of work? These are some of the major challenges facing the trade union movement in 2017. In the following interview, Sharan...
Author Archives: Michael Spiro
Communication: Challenges And Strategies For Trade Unions
Genève, Switzerland 31 January 2017 ILO Conference From 6th to 8th February 2017 Communication officials and trade union activists from Africa, Asia and the Pacific, the Arab States, Europe and the Americas are to meet in Geneva to discuss communication challenges and strategies for strengthening trade unions. From 6th to 8th...
South African National Minimum Wage
8 DECEMBER 2016 MICHAEL BAGRAIM DIAGRAMS ATTORNEYS A lot has transpired in the labour front over the past month. As everyone is aware the expert working group on the national minimum wage has made a proposal of three thousand five hundred rand per month as a minimum wage across the board...
Globally Millions Of Jobs Are Needed To Ensure Essential Health Care
09 December 2016 ILO Study Global Healthcare Requirements An estimated 50 million decent jobs are missing in 2016 to address essential global health requirements through universal health coverage (UHC) and ensure human security, particularly with respect to highly infectious diseases like Ebola. Demographic ageing over the next 15 years is...
YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT
MICHAEL BAGRAIM BAGRAIMS ATTORNEYS 30 JUNE 2016 I strongly believe, after having practised labour law for thirty five years and been extremely involved with, small businesses are the proper conduit for the youth to enter the job market. With the stringent labour laws and harsh regulatory environment these small businesses...
Guy Ryder re-elected as ILO Director-General for a second term
07 November 2016 Guy Ryder has been re-elected by the Governing Body of the ILO for another five-year term that will start officially on 1 October 2017. GENEVA (ILO News) – The Governing Body of the International Labour Organization (ILO) has re-elected Guy Ryder as Director-General for a second five...
The Right To Be Yourself At Work
International Day against Homophobia and Transphobia This year, the theme for the International Day against Homophobia and Transphobia is mental health and well- being. This is particularly relevant as 26 years ago today, the World Health Organization declassified homosexuality as a psychiatric disorder. This was a significant turning point and...
Groundbreaking Case
26th January, 2016 In the matter between Solidarity and the South African Police Service (and others) the Labour Court in Johannesburg held if there was an Employment Equity Plan which amounted to quotas then that would be in breach of the Constitution and the Employment Equity Act. In essence our...
Speed and Scale: Unlocking Digital Value in Customer Journeys
NOVEMBER 2015 Even as organizations assemble digital building blocks for the long term, they also need short-term, pragmatic moves that meet customer expectations and protect core businesses today. By Driek Desmet, Shahar Markovitch, and Christopher Paquette Digitization is a profound transformation.1 When a global bank reinvented its onboarding process for...
Essay: It’s Time For South African Business To Step Up
The country’s companies need to acknowledge their role in apartheid and apply their resources to the challenges of today. By Gloria Serobe, 2015 In all the discussions about who’s responsible for the woes of this country and who will lead us forward, there’s one player that seems to get a...