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.
Cabin crew resume talks with SAA on Monday to avoid new strike
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EWN reports that the South African Cabin Crew Association (Sacca) says it will resume talks with South African Airways (SAA) on Monday morning in an attempt to avoid another strike.
Solidarity worried about SA's stubbornly high unemployment rate
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Fin24 reports that SA’s growing unemployment rate is a source of great distress for trade union Solidarity, which expressed shock on Friday following the release of the latest figures.
Iron ore prices key in Kumba’s wage talks with NUM
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Business Times writes that in Kumba Iron Ore’s current wage negotiations, the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) plans to make sure that the company takes into consideration the good performance the company experienced last year when its share price quadrupled.
Safa and Shakes Mashaba reach ‘amicable’ settlement at CCMA in dismissal case
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TMG Digital/TMG Sport report that the SA Football Association (Safa) has reached an amicable settlement agreement with axed former Bafana Bafana coach Ephraim “Shakes” Mashaba at the CCMA.
With new partner coming on board, Lily and Barbrook miners stand to get jobs back
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City Press reports that hundreds of people stand to be employed at the Lily and Barbrook mines, which due to resume operating 15 months after they were forced to shut down because of financial distress.
Off-duty Tshwane traffic cop found dead with single shot to forehead
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The Citizen reports that an off duty Tshwane Metro Police (TMPD) officer was found dead on Saturday morning with a single bullet wound to his forehead.
Severe crisis in cancer care in KZN as doctors opt for private sector
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Sunday Tribune reports that oncology services in KwaZulu-Natal’s (KZN’s) public hospitals have collapsed and there are no more doctors left in Durban who specialise in treating cancer.
NUM in battle to win back membership in Rustenburg platinum belt
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TMG DigitalTimesLive write that the Rustenburg platinum belt is once again set to become a scene of intense contestation as the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) launches a multi-pronged fight-back strategy to regain lost ground.
Eskom employee Thembisile Yende found dead in her office buried on Saturday
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Sunday Independent reports on the funeral on Saturday of Thembisile Yende, the Eskom technician whose body was discovered in her locked office on 29 May, after she had been reported missing 12 days earlier.
Brian Molefe heads to Labour Court to fight his dismissal from Eskom
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BusinessLive reports that former Eskom CE Brian Molefe has turned to the courts to fight his dismissal, which he wants declared unlawful and void.
Web links to selected labour news reports posted from 2 to 4 June 2017
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Our links page provides references to South African labour news reports we have come across on the Internet from Friday, 2 June to Sunday, 4 June 2017.
Net1 says Belamant pay justified because shareholders forced him out
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Bloomberg reports that Net1 UEPS Technologies’s new chief executive officer, Herman Kotze, said a severance payment to the company’s founder and former CEO who was criticised by the company’s biggest shareholders was justified because they forced him into early retirement.
'I agreed to step aside,' former top cop Phahlane says
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News24 reports that former acting national police commissioner Lieutenant General Khomotso Phahlane says he agreed to ‘step aside’ from his position with immediate effect after a constructive engagement with Police Minister Fikile Mbalula.
Cosatu president forced to back Ramaphosa's ANC presidency bid
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TMG Digital reports that Cosatu president S’dumo Dlamini has for the first time openly endorsed the union federation’s support for Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa as the ANC’s next leader.
Rajesh Gupta calls G4S security guards at Saxonwold mansion ‘monkeys’
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BusinessLive reports that Rajesh "Tony" Gupta blasted the G4S security guards deployed to protect his family’s luxury Saxonwold, Johannesburg, compound as nothing more than "monkeys".
Motsoeneng seeks another postponement of SABC disciplinary hearing
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News24 reports that former SA Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng has lodged an application to postpone disciplinary proceedings against him scheduled for Friday afternoon.
Metrorail working to fix Elandsfontein route after Thursday’s train crash
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ANA reports that Metrorail said on Friday that it was still using a single line shuttle service from Elandsfontein to Kempton Park for the morning peak following a train crash on Thursday that left one person dead and 102 passengers injured.
Nkandla disciplinary hearing postponed for yet a third time
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TMG Digital reports that the latest disciplinary hearing into alleged wrongdoing committed in the R246m upgrades to President Jacob Zuma’s Nkandla homestead was postponed on Thursday — for the third consecutive time.
Gauteng Education condemns abuse against teachers
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ANA reports that the Gauteng Department of Education (GDE) said on Wednesday that it was concerned about reports of schoolchildren assaulting staff members.
Battle to remove Zuma 'do or die' affair, warns Cosatu president
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IOL News reports that pressure from union affiliates and attempts to unseat him have forced Cosatu president S'dumo Dlamini to come out and say he wants President Jacob Zuma to step down.
Solidarity, NUM welcome Molefe’s dismissal as Eskom CEO
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Engineering News reports that Solidarity as well as the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) on Thursday welcomed Public Enterprises Minister Lynne Brown’s decision to rescind the reappointment of Brian Molefe as CEO of Eskom.
Motsoeneng's disciplinary hearing at SABC resumes on Friday
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News24 reports that former SA Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng’s disciplinary hearing was due to continue on Friday. He faces charges of bringing the broadcaster into disrepute, following a media briefing he held on 19 April.
Unions welcome ‘long overdue’ removal of Phahlane as police commissioner
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BusinessLive reports that trade unions in the police sector have roundly welcomed the removal of Kgomotso Phahlane from the position of national police commissioner, to which they say he should never have been appointed.
Mangaung strikers reject metro’s salary offer
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Netwerk24 reports that Olly Mlamleli, executive mayor of the Mangaung metro, says that the municipality’s employees, including striking SA Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu) members, will receive a salary increase of 7.36% from 1 July.
Web links to selected labour news reports posted on 1 June 2017
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Our links page provides references to South African labour news reports we have come across on the Internet on Thursday, 1 June 2017.
UWC open to mediation process over outsourcing dispute
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EWN reports that the University of the Western Cape (UWC) says it is open to a mediation process with aggrieved workers who are demanding an end to outsourcing at the institution.
Dlamini under fire at CC for not ‘articulating’ Cosatu’s support for Ramaphosa
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TimesLive reports that Cosatu president S'dumo Dlamini has been given an ultimatum to either stand firm and take the union federation’s resolutions seriously or else an alternative leader will be elected to head the organisation.
Zuma lauds new mining charter, but a court challenge looms
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BusinessLive reports that President Jacob Zuma said on Wednesday that SA’s long awaited new mining charter had been approved by the Cabinet and would be gazetted in a few weeks.
After three months as MP, Brian Molefe will get R40,000 pension payout
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TMG Digital writes that with Brian Molefe’s reinstatement as Eskom CEO set to be rescinded, he faces losing his R8 million a year salary, but nonetheless he qualifies for a pension payout after his brief stint as a member of parliament.
SA’s unemployment rate hits a 13-year high of 27.7%
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BusinessLive reports that Statistics SA’s Quarterly Labour Force Survey released on Thursday showed unemployment in SA to be at its highest level since September 2003.