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SABC News reports that the South African Medical Association Trade Union (SAMATU) has announced plans to escalate its campaign for the placement of unemployed doctors by engaging directly with the Finance Minister. This decision follows a series of protests across various provinces, including one in the Eastern Cape yesterday, aimed at highlighting the challenges faced […]
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SABC News reports that Cooperative Governance Minister Velenkosini Hlabisa has announced plans to meet with labour unions this week to find solutions for continuing support for the Community Work Programme (CWP) participants aged 55 and older amid budget challenges. The announcement comes after Hlabisa extended contracts for these workers until the end of March. In […]
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News24 writes that a new e-hailing business, which only employs drivers who can speak Afrikaans, has been launched in Centurion and Pretoria. Called Wanatu, which is a play on the Afrikaans expression “Waarnatoe?” (English: Where to?), the company, which is funded by private investors, was launched in October last year. While speaking Afrikaans competently is a […]
Moonstone reports that The Constitutional Court has been unable to agree over whether an employer can fairly dismiss an employee on the basis of age at any stage after the employee has passed the agreed or normal retirement age. The issue is particularly relevant when, because of increasing longevity, employees seek to keep working beyond […]
SABC News reports that A large group of unemployed pharmacists have gathered at the National Department of Health in Pretoria to call upon government to intervene in the crisis facing their profession. More than 2 000 pharmacists are struggling to find employment, despite completing their compulsory community service. The pharmacists will hand over a memorandum to the Minister […]
SABC News writes that The South African Medical Association Trade Union (SAMATU) will today march in Mpumalanga, to demand the employment of medical doctors in the province. They say the march follows numerous unsuccessful attempts to address the matter with the National Health Department. Dr. Mandla Matshabe, one of the doctors participating in the march […]
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SABC News reports that Over a hundred employees have embarked on a strike at all nature reserves managed by the Mpumalanga Tourism and Parks Agency. That’s after the agency announced that it’s facing financial difficulties and plans to implement cost-cutting measures, including job cuts. The strike has forced the MTPA to temporarily close all its […]
The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) strongly condemns the plans to retrench about 2 220 employees in various operations between Newcastle (KwaZulu-Natal) and Vanderbijlpark, Vereeninging (Gauteng). These plans will have a disastrous effect not only on the ArcelorMittal workers but the value chain of the sector that relies on its operations. In our recent meeting […]
The South African Medical Association Trade Union (SAMATU) expresses deep concern and disappointment over the ongoing issue of unemployed doctors who have completed their community service, a matter that remains unaddressed despite repeated calls for resolution. In just a day, SAMATU has documented a staggering 450 doctors who have completed their community service and remain […]
BL Premium reports that unions representing more than 1.3-million public servants are this week expected to provide feedback on a revised three-year wage offer tabled by the state at the Public Service Co-ordinating Bargaining Council (PSCBC). Parties met on Wednesday at the PSCBC where the government revised its wage offer from 4.7% to 5% for 2025/26, […]