Sunday World reports that employers who employ 50 or more employees must prepare and implement an Employment Equity (EE) Plan for the period from September 1, 2025  until August, 2030 to align with the time frames of the five years of the sectoral Employment Equity (EE) targets.   Department of Employment and Labour’s deputy director of employment […]

Sunday World writes that the national Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs has announced a four-month extension for community work programme (CWP) participants above the age of 60, but they will be completely kicked out of the system at the end of July. This is as the department led by Minister Velenkosini Hlabisa is […]

The South African Democratic Teachers’ Union will lead a national march to the office of the National Treasury, Department Basic Education and Department Higher Education and Training in Pretoria on 23April 2025. This mass action is in protest against the austerity measures that are undermining public service delivery – particularly in education – and threatening […]

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SABC News reports that former board members have described the situation at the North West Parks and Tourism Board as dire. They recently appeared before the Portfolio Committee on Economic Development, Environment, Conservation and Tourism in the North West Provincial Legislature. The former board members painted a bleak picture of what they left at the entity during […]

IOL writes that the South African Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu) in Tshwane is calling on the City of Tshwane to pay outstanding salary increases for municipal workers after Mayor Nasiphi Moya reported a projected R2,86 billion in cash reserves. The union is demanding payment of a 3,5% salary increase for 2021, which is a long-overdue […]

SABC News writes that the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) has given the Passenger Rail Agency (Prasa) 60 days to present a wage offer to the workers. Currently, the employer has refused to present any salary offer due to financial challenges. This prompted labour unions SATAWU and UNTU to take the employer to the CCMA to […]

The Mercury reports that the South African Democratic Teachers’ Union (Sadtu) has condemned growing attitudes within the union suggesting that older members should step aside for younger ones, labelling such sentiments as discriminatory and unconstitutional. Speaking at Sadtu’s recent virtual Anti-Discrimination to Workers with Disabilities workshop, vice-president for gender Dudu Nkosi warned that ageism is […]

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The Citizen reports that Gauteng Department of Health on Monday relieved concerns of the implementation of the Commuted Overtime Policy. The department issued a circular on 4 April in response to what it called “misinformation and misinterpretations” surrounding recent communication. According to the department, the confusion led to unnecessary anxiety among health workers. It also […]

SABC News writes that over four municipalities in the Northern Cape are contravening Section 13A of the Pension Fund Act 24 of 1956 by withholding third-party payments to various municipal pension funds. MEC of Finance, Economic Development and Tourism, Venus Blennies-Magage, last month warned implicated Chief Financial Officers and senior officials that they are breaking […]

DFA reports that the City is set to get messier as Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) workers embarked on a go-slow this week, citing disparities in their stipends. Workers, who protested outside the Sol Plaatje Municipality offices on April 2, were in uproar over monthly deductions ranging between R300 and R700 from their pay over […]