SABC News writes that the Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa (DENOSA), has expressed concern over the number of positions not filled in the province’s health department. This after over 140 healthcare professionals wrote to Eastern Cape Premier Oscar Mabuyane urging him to reverse his decision to remove provincial health’s head of department Dr Rolene […]

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TimesLive reports that the strike by National Education, Health and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu) members at the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) entered its fourth day on Monday and members presented a memorandum of demands to management. Nehawu members went on strike on Wednesday after negotiations for the 2023/2024 salary increases collapsed and Icasa […]

TimesLive reports that the Nehawu branch at the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) says its workers will go on strike from Wednesday after failing to reach an agreement over wage increases. The union served Icasa with a notice to strike last Monday. Nehawu is the only union that represents Icasa employees, 200 of the […]

SABC News reports that over 600 workers at Seriti Klipspruit Colliery in Mpumalanga face job losses as the company has issued a Section 189 notice of retrenchment to the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM). In response, NUM organised a march to the company’s Sandton offices to deliver a memorandum. Some 100 coal miners affiliated with […]

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Sowetan Live reports that Muvhango Lukhaimane, is the Pension Fund Adjudicator and her office is legally empowered to handle pension fund disputes between workers and their employees. Having grown up in Venda, Limpopo, Lukhaimane has Masters in Law and an MBA degree and says her career path to the pension space was not planned. “I sort of […]

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Business Tech reports that a new case against the Minister of Employment and Labour looks to create a new gender-neutral maternity leave. In August 2023, the Gauteng High Court heard arguments in the case Van Wyk and Others v the Minister of Employment and Labour and Others. In this matter, Werner and Ika Van Wyk’s application […]

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Mining Weekly writes that the Minerals Council South Africa and trade union the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) are mourning the death of those killed in an accident between a bus and a truck, near diamond miner De Beers’ Venetia mine, in Limpopo, on the afternoon of September 17. JSE-listed engineering and contractor group Murray & Roberts (M&R) earlier confirmed […]

Fin24 reports that Sibanye-Stillwater has issued retrenchment notices at its Kloof 4 shaft, which could potentially affect as many as 3 000 workers at the gold mining operation near Carletonville. Last week Thursday, Sibanye-Stillwater said it would consult with organised labour in terms of section 189A of the Labour Relations Act regarding the possible restructuring […]

SABC News reports that more than 20 people were burnt to death when a bus collided with a truck in Musina, Limpopo yesterday afternoon. The bus was transporting mine workers to Venetia mine when it collided with a truck and caught fire. The mine workers were employed to work in an underground project at the […]

Members of the COSATU-affiliated Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers’ Union (SACTWU) in the clothing sector will start to receive their new wage increase for 2023 as from today. This wage increase is as a result of a two-year clothing sector collective agreement which was concluded last year. The two-year agreement contained the following provision […]