Today's Labour News
This news aggregator site highlights South African labour news from a wide range of internet and print sources. Each posting has a synopsis of the source article, together with a link or reference to the original. Postings cover the range of labour related matters from industrial relations to generalist human resources.
Children pay the price for higher-than-expected state wage hikes
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BL Premium reports that the Western Cape education department has sounded the alarm over the deep cuts the Treasury has forced on its budget, saying it has to scale back plans to build schools and, as a result, more children will remain in overcrowded facilities.
Morning roundup of labour news on Friday, 1 December 2023
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Morning roundup of labour news on Thursday, 30 November 2023
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Court bid by suspended NMB city manager to get her job back struck from the roll due to lack of urgency
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News24 reports that the suspended Nelson Mandela Bay city manager, Noxolo Nqwazi, will not be returning to work soon after her attempt to get her job back by approaching the Eastern Cape High Court in Gqeberha failed on Wednesday.
Probe of Implats mine accident is vital, says Cyril Ramaphosa
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TimesLIVE reports that President Cyril Ramaphosa has called on all stakeholders to assist the chief inspector of mines in the investigation into the deaths on Monday of 11 miners at Rustenburg’s Impala Platinum mine shaft 11.
Forty people cut from Sasfin’s business banking unit, including its former CEO
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Fin24 reports that Sasfin Holdings has cut 40 people from its struggling business and commercial banking unit, including the division's former chief executive Sandile Shabalala.
Floyd Brink reappointed as Johannesburg's City Manager
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News24 reports that Floyd Brink was reappointed as Johannesburg's City Manager after a behind-closed-doors council meeting on Wednesday.
Three former Office of the Chief Justice employees appear in court on R225 million corruption charge
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The Citizen reports that three former Office of the Chief Justice (OCJ) employees appeared in the Palm Ridge Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday to face corruption charges linked to a R225 million tender.
Eleven miners killed on Monday in ‘darkest day’ of Implats’ history
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BL Premium reports that a tragic accident at Impala Platinum’s (Implats’) Rustenburg mine on Monday claimed the lives of 11 workers and injured 75 others.
Job cuts at ArcelorMittal SA may hit 3,500 workers as dysfunction at Transnet rail freight bites
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BL Premium reports that the inefficiencies at Transnet have increased costs exponentially for the steel industry and have brought the sector to its knees, according to ArcelorMittal SA (Amsa), which is on the verge of shedding 3,500 jobs.
Morning roundup of labour news on Wednesday, 29 November 2023
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City of Cape Town warns tourism jobs at risk if crime at tourist attractions not tackled
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EWN reports that the City of Cape Town has warned that tourism jobs may be on the line if nothing is done about criminality, especially around tourist attractions.
Trade union ‘sets record straight’ on ‘unfair’ suspension of nurses at Ekurhuleni hospital
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TimesLIVE reports that the Health and Allied Workers Indaba Trade Union (Haitu) has defended three nurses suspended at an Ekurhuleni hospital last week.
As municipal dysfunction deepens, employees feel the pinch with salary nonpayments
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Financial Mail writes that collapsing municipal infrastructure and sporadic service delivery have left businesses and residents scrambling for alternative service providers.
Tshwane workers opt to end fruitless wage strike
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BL Premium reports that the four-month illegal work stoppage by City of Tshwane mtro employees, which saw municipal property such as garbage trucks and other infrastructure vandalised and destroyed, is over.
NUM says 10,000 mining jobs may be lost in the next two months
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BL Premium reports that the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) has warned that the raft of retrenchment notices issued by mining houses in recent months could result in about 10,000 job losses by January 2024.
Morning roundup of labour news on Tuesday, 28 November 2023
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City of Joburg’s application to appeal ruling that Floyd Brink’s appointment as city manager was unlawful denied
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News24 reports that the South Gauteng High Court has dismissed a bid by the City of Johannesburg to appeal a damning ruling that declared the appointment of the city manager, Floyd Brink, unlawful.
SABC names Nomsa Chabeli as new group CEO
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BL Premium reports that the SA Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) has announced Nomsa Chabeli as its new CEO, with the board expressing confidence in the former MTN executive’s ability to drive revenue generation and growth for the ailing public broadcaster.
Wesizwe Platinum to cut jobs at “bloated” Bakubung mine
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Miningmx reports that the bloodbath in SA’s platinum group metal (PGM) sector worsened on Monday after Wesizwe Platinum said it planned to restructure its “bloated” Bakubung mine in North West province.
Three female security officers raped during robbery transport department depot in Durban
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TimesLIVE reports that three female security officers were attacked and raped at gunpoint by a group of armed men who stormed a KwaZulu-Natal transport department depot in Merebank on Monday.
Roundup on Monday, 27 November 2023 of weekend labour reports
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labour-related stories that appeared since
Friday, 24 November 2023.
Morning roundup of labour news on Friday, 24 November 2023
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Morning roundup of labour news on Thursday, 23 November 2023
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Field ranger killed in hippo attack at KZN game reserve
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News24 reports that a 31-year-old field ranger at Mkhuze Game Reserve in KwaZulu-Natal was killed by a hippo while on foot patrol over the weekend. Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife said it was saddened by the death of Sphamandla Mthembu, who died on Sunday.
Consumer inflation accelerates again in October to 5.9%
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BL Premium reports that headline inflation accelerated to the top end of the SA Reserve Bank’s (SARB’s) 3%-6% target range in October, reinforcing the view that the Bank could maintain its tighter policy stance for longer before adjusting it lower to relieve pressure on indebted consumers and businesses.
Tshwane launches new digitised system to recruit EPWP workers
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Pretoria News reports that the newly-launched City of Tshwane’s Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) digitised job recruitment system is user-friendly, accessible and will streamline the registration process.
Former Eskom boss Koko off the hook in R2.2bn fraud case because of unreasonable delays
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TimesLIVE reports that the Middelburg Specialised Commercial Crimes Court on Tuesday struck former Eskom boss Matshela Koko’s fraud, corruption and money-laundering case off the roll due to unreasonable delays.
MPs fight against delay until 2025 in implementation of two-pot retirement system
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Fin24 reports that Parliament's Standing Committee on Finance has pushed back against a recommendation from National Treasury that the implementation of the so-called two-pot retirement system be delayed until 2025, calling instead for it to be rolled out in March 2024.
Morning roundup of labour news on Wednesday, 22 November 2023
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