SABC News reports that COSATU’s Acting National Spokesperson and Parliamentary Coordinator, Matthew Parks, has expressed deep concern over the lack of salary increases for South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) staff in recent years, despite high inflation rates. The public broadcaster has been facing financial difficulties amidst growing competition in the digital broadcasting landscape. Employees of the […]

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SABC News writes that the South African Broadcasting Corporation’s (SABC) Group CEO Nomsa Chabeli says the organisation doesn’t foresee the possibility of staff salaries being at risk as the public broadcaster faces liquidity constraints. The SABC has been battling cash flow challenges in recent years amid an increasingly competitive broadcasting space in the digital era. This comes as the […]

Mining mx reports that Harmony Gold on Thursday said it had signed a five-year wage deal with unions for a 6% per year increase including benefits, effective from July. The agreement is significant as it is with all unions simulltaneously, the first time this had been achieved by the company in its history. Negotiations, which took […]

EWN reports that Police union POPCRU (Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union) has rejected a proposed 4.7% wage increase. According to the union, the increase, which it rejected in 2023, falls far below inflation, which currently sits at 5.6%. POPCRU is accusing government of being arrogant towards public service workers. It added that unhappy members […]

The Star reports that over 5000 assistant agricultural practitioners (AAP) left hanging after the Department of Agriculture and Land reform terminated graduates’ contracts, are hoping that the president will come to their aid and reinstate them to their jobs. The Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development developed a program for three months to […]

News24 reports that a stalemate between municipal workers and management has reached crisis proportions, with management rejecting a hard-negotiated settlement. The workers declared they stand united and will fight until the end. They state they will also withhold their vote on 29 May unless Thaduxolo Khalipha is removed as executive mayor of the Matjhabeng Local […]

Business Live reports that eThekwini workers affiliated to the SA Municipal Workers Union (Samwu) have been urged to return to work after a breakthrough in their engagement with the city. Some of the workforce went on an illegal strike two weeks ago, despite a court order to stop them, as they sought salary benchmarking with […]

The National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union [NEHAWU] has reached an agreement with the University of Pretoria after a protracted strike characterised by highhandedness by the untransformed university management. The agreement was signed today, Monday 11th March 2024. The parties agreed on the following: ● That the Employer will positively adjust the salaries of employees […]

IOL News reports that a recent judgment by the Labour Court confirmed the current untenable position that many working-class South Africans find themselves in: being unable to retire comfortably at the standard age, and thus having to work beyond retirement. In Seokwane v Bidvest Prestige Cleaning Services, the Labour Court found that a general worker […]

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IOL News writes that the South African Revenue Service (Sars) commissioner Edward Kieswetter told unions representing its employees that the taxman’s funding deficits between R2.35 billion and R3.5bn over a three-year period forced him not to fully increase salaries by 6.2%. This has emerged in papers filed at the North Gauteng High Court after Sars […]