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Labour market: AI and automation are reshaping the labour market.

Reflections on workers’ regression, resistance and renewal

With millions of South Africans unemployed — particularly young people — employers wield enormous power. The message is clear: “If you don’t accept these conditions, there are…

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

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Bye, brokers: Hello, service providers

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

The heliostat system in KaXu or Stellenbosch

Retrenched gold miners caught in a Catch-22

Pan African Resources closes Evander Gold Mine, leaving its former workforce out on a limb

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

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

Heineken issue ferments: Labour-broking shows few signs of disappearing

Workers want permanent jobs as the company allegedly tries to evade new labour-broker laws

Legal township establishment processes exist to ensure that urban development is safe, serviced and sustainable.

Cheap labour could cost bosses in the long term

By using casual workers instead of employing permanent staff, firms may leak productivity.

Allegations include improper and unlawful conduct by Sapo officials.

How labour broking almost broke the post office

A new critique of casualisation at the parastatal – and its demise – could have wider lessons for reducing economic inequality in South Africa.

Blade Nzimande.

Nzimande heaps scorn on labour brokers

The government should not do business with companies that use labour brokers, SA Communist Party general secretary Blade Nzimande has said.

‘Rushed’ labour Bills under fire

‘Rushed’ labour Bills under fire

Business has claimed that "irrational" labour Bills were passed before a final Nedlac report and were not properly assessed by stakeholders.

New Bills do little to ease labour broking fears

New Bills do little to ease labour broking fears

Cabinet has approved the two Bills dealing with labour broking without heeding the Congress of South African Trade Unions’ call to ban the practice.

Business council dips into labour broking debate

The Black Business Council says regulating rather than banning labour brokers would be a preferable solution to the controversial situation.

Rise of the gentlemen unionists

Rise of the gentlemen unionists

Cosatu has tried a more measured approach to attain its economic policy goals and it seems to be working.

The rabble at ANC’s gates

The rabble at ANC’s gates

The journey to Mangaung has come across a few stumbling blocks.

Cabinet eager for end to labour broking debate

Cabinet eager for end to labour broking debate

Minister in the Presidency Collins Chabane says Cabinet has called for the protracted debate on labour broking at Nedlac to be finalised soon.

No love for Malema at Cosatu’s Polokwane protest

Incidents of intimidation and disruption of services characterised Cosatu’s national strike against labour brokers and the e-tolling system.

ANCYL thumbs nose at ANC by joining Cosatu march

ANCYL thumbs nose at ANC by joining Cosatu march

The ANC’s young lions are set to confront the government by joining Cosatu’s national strike against labour brokers and the e-tolling system.

Cosatu lashes new labour-broking law

Cosatu lashes new labour-broking law

Cosatu has accused the ANC and the government of soft-pedalling on labour broking to shield politically connected business people.