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.
NUM and Amcu members increasingly applying to join Solidarity and Uasa as a way of quitting the strike at Sibanye’s gold mines
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Fin24 reports that a month into the wage strike at Sibanye-Stillwater's gold mines, members of striking unions have begun to cross the floor to non-striking unions in a bid to return to work and again receive salaries.
SA-China job fair on Thursday to offer around 20,000 jobs to locals over the next few years
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The Citizen reports that 100 enterprises and 1,000 jobs on offer to local applicants is a development that could not have come at a better time for the country’s jobless youth, if this week’s South Africa-China Economy and Trade Association (SACETA) job fair is anything to go by.
SA airline industry faces maintenance skills shortage, says aviation expert
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BL Premium reports that the SA aviation industry, which was in the spotlight after the grounding of Comair flights recently, saw an exit of senior staff and the retrenchment of workers during the Covid-19 pandemic, which has led to a shortage of skills.
Bargaining council orders De Lille to lift the suspension of director-general Sam Vukela
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News24 reports that the General Public Service Sector Bargaining Council (GPSSBC) has found that Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Patricia de Lille instituted unfair labour practices when she suspended director-general Sam Vukela.
Roundup on Monday, 11 April 2022 of weekend labour reports
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In our roundup of weekend news, see
summaries of our selection of South African
labour-related stories that appeared since
Friday, 8 April 2022.
Health department defends its management of expert advice on Covid-19 and claims all advisories from scientists have been publicly released
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BL Premium reports that the Department of Health’s deputy director-general for National Health Insurance, Nicholas Crisp, has rejected claims by activists that the department has deviated from scientific input and withheld information on how it has managed the Covid-19 pandemic.
Wage strike at Taylor Blinds factory in Cape Town
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GroundUp reports that about 100 workers have been on strike at Taylor Blinds & Shutters in Montague Gardens, Cape Town, since last Monday.
Security guard one of two persons gunned down in Durban in separate incidents on Friday
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The Mercury reports that two people were gunned down in Durban on Friday in separate incidents in KwaMashu and on the M4 Southern Freeway near Wentworth.
Six persons seriously injured while fixing vandalised Gugulethu substation in Cape Town
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News24 reports that six persons, among them contractors, were injured when a surge from a vandalised power cable, which was being repaired in Cape Town, exploded.
Absa paid former CEO Daniel Mminele R30.47m in hasty ‘no fault’ exit settlement
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BL Premium reports that Absa’s first black CEO Daniel Mminele, who stepped down in April 2021 over differences with the board, was paid R30.47m in a “no-fault” termination agreement with the bank.
Gideon du Plessis says there is an opportunity for unions to re-emerge as united force
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In an informative analysis, Gideon du Plessis, general secretary of trade union Solidarity, gives an overview of the seminal events and developments of the past decade during which the standing and power of once dominant organisations such as the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), metalworkers’ union Numsa and labour federation Cosatu waned.
Treasury director-general Dondo Mogajane to leave on 7 June
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Fin24 reports that the director-general of the National Treasury, Dondo Mogajane, who has served government for 23 years, will leave on 7 June when his contract expires.
IT sector needs to support schools to ensure future skills pipeline for 4IR
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Engineering News reports that the SA information technology (IT) industry needs to move quickly to save the industry’s skills pipeline or risk falling behind the world in terms of Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) progress.
Immigration practitioner and accomplice get 15 years for trying to bribe official to print blank work permits
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The Citizen reports that Home Affairs Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi has welcomed the 15-year direct imprisonment sentence handed down to a corrupt immigration practitioner who was behind a fraudulent South African permit scam.
Eastern Cape premier suspends head of education department Naledi Mbude over textbook debacle
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BusinessLive reports that Eastern Cape premier Oscar Mabuyane has suspended the head of the department of education, Naledi Mbude, over the delay in delivering textbooks and the forfeiture of a R200m grant meant for school infrastructure.
Morning roundup of labour news on Thursday, 7 April 2022
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In our Thursday morning roundup, see
summaries of our selection of recent South African
labour-related reports.
KZN company director linked to R1 million Covid-19 Ters fraud
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IOL reports that a 37-year-old company director made her first appearance in the Durban Specialised Commercial Crime Court charged with defrauding the Covid-19 Temporary Employer-Employee Relief Scheme (Ters).
Sibanye-Stillwater stands firm on gold wage offer as it warns of economic downturn
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Fin24 reports that a month into a wage strike at Sibanye-Stillwater's gold mines, CEO Neal Froneman said the group would stand firm on its wage offer as the world faced a potential economic downturn.
CEO of Anglo American Platinum says women don’t feel safe in SA mines
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Bloomberg reports that Natascha Viljoen, chief executive officer of Anglo American Platinum (Amplats), says women don’t feel safe working underground in SA mines.
Health department vows 'we are not going to backtrack' in implementing NHI
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News24 reports that the Department of Health says it won't back down from implementing the proposed National Health Insurance (NHI).
Performance bonus bumped up outgoing Santam CEO's earnings to R17.5m in 2021
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Fin24 reports that in her last full year as Santam CEO, Lizé Lambrechts bagged R17.5 million in total pay, bonus and incentives.
Uasa approaches Labour Court to ensure Denel pays its employees
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Engineering News reports that trade union Uasa has brought an urgent Labour Court application to get state-owned defence group Denel to honour all outstanding contractual obligations and effect payment of Uasa members’ full remuneration from 1 August 2020 to date.
Striking mineworkers at Sibanye-Stillwater’s gold operations set to lose a month’s pay
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BL Premium reports that as industrial action enters its fourth week on Wednesday at Sibanye-Stillwater’s gold operations, striking members of the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu) and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) are set to lose a month’s pay.
Cosatu troubled by reports SACP owes staff six months’ wages
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EWN reports that the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) on Monday said it was troubled by recent reports that its alliance partner, the SA Communist Party (SACP), owed its staff members six months' wages.
Fuel tax ‘holiday’ limits Wednesday’s fuel price hikes
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BusinessLive reports that more fuel price hikes await motorists this week with diesel rising by up to R1.69 a litre and petrol by as much as 36c a litre.
Durban worker crushed after large packaging trolley fell off truck
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Truck and Freight reports that on Monday morning, Netcare 911 responded to a crush injury at a shopping centre in Winklespruit, South of Durban.
With Numsa now demanding 10% wage increase, bus strike looms just prior to Easter weekend
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The Citizen reports that according to the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa), a nationwide strike in the bus sector ahead of the Easter holiday is looming as employers are refusing to meet workers’ demands.
Morning roundup of labour news on Tuesday, 5 April 2022
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In our Tuesday morning roundup, see
summaries of our selection of recent South African
labour-related reports.
Ramaphosa takes the plunge and ends state of disaster from midnight on Monday
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BusinessLive reports that in a widely anticipated move to deflect mounting legal pressure and boost business confidence, the government has ended the national state of disaster, which was brought into effect two years ago to manage the coronavirus pandemic.
Attacks on Western Cape paramedics will derail service delivery if left unchecked
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Cape Argus reports that the Western Cape Department of Health and Wellness’s Emergency Medical Services (WCDHW EMS) have again condemned attacks on their staff.