Redefining workplace well-being: Addressing mental health and invisible disabilities

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IOl News reports that in today’s rapidly evolving workplace, employee well-being can no longer be viewed through a narrow or purely physical lens. Mental health and invisible disabilities, once considered private or peripheral, are now central to organisational sustainability, productivity and inclusion. Employers and HR leaders have a responsibility to create environments where employees feel […]

High Court to hear Tongaat-Hulett’s liquidation case

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SABC News writes that The High Court in Durban will hear an application for the provisional liquidation of Tongaat-Hulett on Friday. Business rescue practitioners have brought the application. The company was placed under business rescue in 2022. Since then, the 134-year-old sugar giant has suffered a R12 billion share value loss. This is despite creditors approving a […]

COSATU gives GEMS seven days to reverse 9.8% contribution hike

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SABC News reports that Public sector unions affiliated to the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) have given the Government Employees Medical Scheme (GEMS) seven days to reverse the 9.8% premium hike contribution for 2026. They staged a demonstration outside the GEMS headquarters in Pretoria. Government workers say GEMS is supposed to be an affordable medical scheme. […]

Warehouse worker wins labour fight

IOL News reports that the Western Cape Labour Court has upheld a CCMA ruling reinstating a warehouse employee dismissed after testing positive for alcohol at work, finding that the sanction of dismissal was not justified in the circumstances. Mike Mwale, employed by Cipla Distribution Gateway, was dismissed after a breathalyser test recorded an alcohol reading […]

COSATU PUBLIC SERVICE UNIONS REJECTS THE UNJUSTIFIED GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES MEDICAL SCHEME INCREASE AND CALLS FOR A NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION 

The public service unions affiliated to COSATU and represented in the Public Service Coordinating Bargaining Council — DENOSA, NEHAWU, SADTU, POPCRU, SAMATU, PAWUSA and SAEPU — unequivocally rejects the decision by the Government Employees Medical Scheme (GEMS) to impose a 9.8% member contribution increase for 2026, following an already devastating 13.4% increase in 2025. While […]

SATAWU declares dispute in the Passenger sector

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The South African Transport and Allied Workers Unions (SATAWU) has been engaged in wage negotiations that are currently taking place with the South African Road Passenger Bargaining Council (SARPBC) and has a declared a dispute. This comes after SATAWU tabled its demands as the 2-year agreement is coming to an end with the employer. The […]

HR manager loses court battle after dismissal for reporting sick and went to chair outside hearing

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IOL News writes that the Labour Appeal Court in Durban has dismissed an appeal by former CHEP SA (Pty) Ltd employee Nontobeko Lliona Machi, confirming that her dismissal was substantively fair despite procedural flaws in the disciplinary process. The court upheld an earlier ruling of the Labour Court that refused to set aside an arbitration […]