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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…

Seeing red: The decision by the SACP to go it alone during the local government elections leaves workers in a difficult position as their allegiance is
torn between the Communists and the ANC. Photo: SACP

Fragmented workers, the only mourners in ANC-SACP divorce

When workers are divided by political loyalty to competing parties, they cannot effectively unite against employers during wage negotiations

Attorney Chinette Gallichan was shot in broad daylight outside the offices of the Council for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) in the Johannesburg CBD

Anger over lawyer’s murder

The young lawyer was shot dead in broad daylight outside the offices of the Council for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) in the Johannesburg CBD

FlySafair said the price of jet fuel at local airports rose by about 70% in just one week, following a surge in global oil prices.
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Flysafair reaches wage deal with pilots, ending strike

According to union Solidarity, pilots will receive salary increases of between 6% and 6.9% over the next four years

Special Investigating Unit manager accused of harassment

The complainant says the senior manager made romantic advances and told her that her employment future was in his hands

A scaled-down labour inspectorate will leave vulnerable workers at the mercy of ‘unscrupulous employers’

Budget cuts give bad bosses a break

A scaled-down labour inspectorate will leave vulnerable workers at the mercy of ‘unscrupulous employers’

Small business owners closing shop and feeling the financial squeeze

The hopes and dreams of many entrepreneurs have been dashed. We track some of the owners of SMMEs, who talk of losing everything they worked for

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