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Unions have said the trend of making workers casual and the use of brokers to source labours on a three-month contract basis was rife in the logistics sector. Photo: grindrod.com

Grindrod Logistics workers strike over retrenchments

Unions say the company is keeping its workforce as casual labour to grow profits, in line with a trend in the transport sector

Logistical challenge: Workers at pallet hire company Chep South Africa will appear in the labour appeal court next week, seeking to overturn an order that they not be made permanent.  (Luis Enrique Ascui/Bloomberg/Getty Images)

Labour battle: Labour brokers back in court

Some believed a 2018 Constitutional Court ruling would spell the end of labour broking. It didn’t

The consumer price index decreased by 0.1% month-on-month in August, after increasing by 0.9% in July.

Pick n Pay workers lose their jobs for ‘striking’ during the lockdown

A group of workers have been dismissed, but they insist they never embarked on industrial action in the first place

(Ashraf Hendricks/Ground Up)

Bye, brokers: Hello, service providers

Labour brokers were reined in by the Concourt, but they are already trying to exploit loopholes

Unions are claiming Friday’s court ruling on labour broking as spelling the end of the practice but other labour specialists disagree. (Madelene Cronje/M&G)

Court shows employers who’s boss

A Constitutional Court ruling on labour-broking ends uncertainty over dual employment

Close to majority of unions sign public sector wage deal

Chips are down at Simba as workers prepare to strike

The company has allegedly colluded with labour-broking company Adcorp Blu to evade the requirements of section 198 of the Labour Relations Act

Why are men continuing to breed a culture of toxic masculinity even at their own peril and can anything be done about it?

A make-or-break case for the labour-broking sector reaches top court

Labour brokers are fighting a law that advances calls to ban the practice

Zuma adds humorous touch to Sona debate response

The president was in top form, from "commending" Julius Malema and calling Mangosuthu Buthelezi the "voice of reason", to giving a history lesson.

Employment Services Bill on labour brokers gets go-ahead

The Employment Services Bill, intended to regulate labour brokers, has been given the green light in the National Assembly.

Coalitions emerge in proportional systems largely because these systems produce more political parties over time

Truant MPs leave controversial labour Bill hanging

The contentious Labour Relations Amendment Bill – which deals with labour brokers, among other things – has not been passed for lack of quorum.

Wildcat strikes at platinum

Labour action: A breakdown in collective bargaining

Wildcat strikes in the mining sector have set a new trend that could result in the unravelling of the formal system of collective bargaining.

The Labour Appeal Court’s judge president says South African companies use labour brokers to shirk labour laws.

Companies use brokers to avoid labour laws, says judge

Many companies in South Africa use labour brokers to circumvent labour laws, says Labour Appeal Court Judge President Dunstan Mlambo.

This week we’ll speak to our politics team on the future of the Cosatu and more.

Cosatu admits ANC won labour brokers battle

Cosatu has conceded it lost its long-running battle with the ruling party for an outright ban on labour brokers.

Lawyers lick chops at labour rules

Lawyers lick chops at labour rules

The jury has been out on whether the new set of labour-broker laws will benefit thousands of temporary workers, but litigation will soar.

Keep it together

Zuma: Cosatu was part of labour brokerage decision

The Congress of South Africa Trade Unions was involved in adopting the decision to regulate labour brokers, says President Jacob Zuma.

We’re not marching to Mangaung

Going for broke: Is Cosatu missing the point?

Cosatu’s call for a labour broker ban has been cast in a new light by research showing a quarter of jobs created since 1994 were filled by brokerages.

Three-year wage deal signed: Seifsa

Six trade unions signed a three-year wage agreement on Monday, ending a nationwide engineering sector strike.

Throwing off the shackles of the past

Throwing off the shackles of the past

Teba, an apartheid pariah labour recruitment agency, has reinvented itself with a new focus on community.

Court hears decision on Zuma’s case is reviewable

SA labour market shake-up worries business

SA is proposing sweeping changes to labour law intended to increase job security for temporary workers, but economists have expressed concern.

Good Ship Zuma is floundering

The ANC kicked off 2011 in confident mode, its president Jacob Zuma declaring to a packed stadium that this year would be the one when job creation would be tackled in earnest.