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Unemployed men inJohannesburg wait on a street corner for work for part-time work. Photo: Naashon Zalk/Bloomberg/Getty Images

Employment equity and decent work will support economic growth in South Africa

The Democratic Alliance, the Free Market Foundation and the Institute of Race Relations have flawed views regarding employment equity

The CCMA uses dialogue based on conciliation and mediation to transform labour relations.  Photo: Ashraf Hendricks

Workers’ Day: How the Commission for Conciliation Mediation and Arbitration can promote social justice through ubuntu

The CCMA uses dialogue based on conciliation and mediation to transform labour relations

Standard Bank flexes its global outlook muscle through the Africa-Asia trade corridor 

South Africa is ranked 36 out of 138 countries that export goods, 40 of 138 countries that import goods and 19 of 138 countries trade balance. We have have managed to create a…

There is significant speculation about the effect of GenAI for the future of work and workers

Workers and the rise of the algorithmic boss

The issue lies in management-by-algorithm — the technologically ‘objective’ use of people analytics, big data and AI to manage the workforce

Mbalula: Don’t blame ANC for highway police brutality

The ANC secretary general said the country would ‘forever’ remember the VIP police protection unit assault

Garment workers want Bangladesh to ratify the International Labour Organisation’s decision on ending discrimination against women, gender-based violence and minimum standards of social security. Photo by Mamunur Rashid/Getty Images

Challenging Eurocentrism: A step towards social justice

The International Labour Organisation needs to work against narratives that portray Africans as charity cases, and introduce democratic decision-making processes

SAMWU Strike in Tshwane. Photo: Supplied

Public sector strike: Government’s ‘power play’ and why we should worry

Labour has been on the receiving end of a failing economy’s onslaught, giving a business-friendly government the upper hand

Serena Williams salutes the fans after her last career match, during day 5 of the US Open 2022, 4th Grand Slam event of the season at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. Photo: Getty Images.

What are the best options for women who retire?

Serena Williams’ exist from professional tennis calls into question the persistent unequal pay scenario

The happy couple: What did psychiatrist Ingrid Williamson think and feel knowing that her husband, Craig, had been responsible for killing Ruth First, Jeanette Schoon and her daughter Katryn?

The two faces of Doctor Williamson, wife of an apartheid serial killer

Ingrid Evita Williamson is a psychiatrist praised for her kindness. But for nearly 50 years she has been the devoted wife of Craig Williamson, the security policeman who admitted…

A foreign migrant sits on his bed inside a boarded up room occupied by two people on the upstairs floor in a building in the Kwa Mai Mai area in Johannesburg, on May 14, 2020. – Over 50 people, residents of the same building and mostly foreign nationals are currently unemployed because of the lockdown imposed by the South African authorities to curb the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. Dozens of them are unable to feed themselves, as the only charity providing them with food has not brought any in several days. (Photo by MARCO LONGARI / AFP)

African youth: Empowering the continent’s greatest asset

Education is the best way to turn young people’s potential into realised achievements

The latest unemployment figures show deepening joblessness and continuous setbacks. (Photo by Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images)

Professional or working class, unemployment has hammered black women the most

The latest unemployment figures show deepening joblessness and continuous setbacks

Kate Monama is a mother who has been unemployed for five years. (Andy Mkosi)

A black woman’s burden: Carer, provider and unemployed

All indicators, including the employment statistics released this week show how black women bear the brunt of unemployment. Here are their stories

The official opposition party, the Democratic Alliance (DA), said it does not support a permanent expansion of the grant system at this stage.

R350 grant: A ticket into the labour market — report

The Covid-19 social relief of distress grant was terminated at the end of April, but research shows it aided job recovery

Awaiting punters: Although there was some narrowing of the gap between men and women between April and June, women have still experienced greater job losses during the pandemic. The gender pay gap among the poor also widened during this period. (Michele Spatari/AFP)

‘Startling’ bounce-back for SA’s labour market — Nids-Cram survey

A new data release shows that employment may have reached pre-Covid-19 levels. Still, many who’ve lost their jobs have not managed to get back to work

Rejection: Lawrence Mashiyane, 26, (left) applied for 135 jobs this year but didn’t get one of them, so, rather than be frustrated, he decided to return to university to do his post-graduate degree. (Paul Botes/M&G)

Citizens bear Covid’s economic scars

Data released this week is evidence of the scale of the financial and humanitarian crisis South Africa faces

People wait in line to receive food at a food bank on April 28, 2020 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. Food banks around the nation have witnessed a surge in clients as millions of Americans have either lost jobs or seen a decline in income due to the continued closure of businesses and economic life because of the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Global job losses linger after lockdowns

Developing countries have been hit harder by the Covid-19 downturn than in past economic crises

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Women’s workplace gains slow as Covid-19 crisis strikes

Women workers are more likely to lose their jobs in the fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic, slowing gains made over recent years

Mapule Seakamela has had to find new ways to support women before, during and after childbirth. (Paul Botes/M&G)

Job losses induce midwife crisis

The pandemic has an especially dire effect on sectors dominated by women, such as birth companions. Doulas are already feeling the pinch

Income shocks and the breakdowns in social protection schemes have had consequences for hunger and food insecurity in South Africa

Three million jobs lost and hunger surging amid Covid-19 crisis — survey

Income shocks and the breakdowns in social protection schemes have had consequences for hunger and food insecurity in South Africa

Minister of Employment and Labour Thulas Nxesi has warned that large-scale job losses are inevitable. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Possible lockdown retrenchments are already soaring

After just three months of lockdown, more than 100 000 workers could lose their jobs