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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

Pressure: The Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration is under budgetary constraints, the workload has mushroomed and CCMA director Cameron Morajane warns of political parties setting up labour desks. (Alaister Russell/Gallo Images/Sunday Times)

Politics interfering in CCMA work

The labour dispute resolution body says there is a growing trend of political parties and civil society organisations representing workers at hearings

Former Eskom chief executive Andre de Ruyter. (Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg)

No retrenchments as Eskom forges ahead with unbundling

The power utility will keep the peace with organised labour, André de Ruyter has assured

Standing her ground: Mamodupi Mohlala says people need to be educated on gender issues, not only in a domestic context, but also in the boardroom. (Delwyn Verasamy)

Q&A Sessions: ‘I think I was born way before my time’ — Mamodupi Mohlala

The chief executive of the Estate Agency Affairs Board and the deputy chair of the SABC board, shares her take on retrenchments at the public broadcaster and reveals why she…

A recent Constitutional Court judgment empowers employers to change their workers’ employment conditions if the further functioning of a company requires this. If workers refuse, they may be dismissed without severance. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Constitutional Court ruling on restructuring dispute is good for employers

A judgment from the apex court empowers employers to change their workers’ contracts — without consultation

SA Express employees beat out 16 other interested parties to buy a stake in the troubled state-owned airline.

SA Express employees in R250m crowdfunding bid to buy their airline

Amid the overnight, worldwide crash of the air travel industry, a group of retrenched SA Express employees have an ambitious plan to raise R250-million in seed funding to buy the…

(John McCann/M&G)

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

702: Vitriol dims the radio’s star

702 has recently lost a number of high-profile presenters. It says this is part of a shift to gain listeners. But insiders say something is rotten

The ITB administers nearly three million hectares of tribal land in KwaZulu-Natal on behalf of King Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu, its sole trustee.

Ingonyama Trust Board moves to retrench staff

More than 50 workers at the Ingonyama Trust Board have been issued section 189 notices

Phalaphala FM had long had an association with VBS, embarking on a series of charity events, including relief for  impoverished schoolchildren, which the bank sponsored. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

SABC staff ready to join picket line

The national broadcaster has rejected claims that it did not follow correct retrenchment and audit processes

(Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

SAA 2.0 hopes to start lean and grow from next year

Draft agreement document spells out that R1.5-billion will be needed to fund severance packages for 2 400 of the airline’s employees

True mentorship is not about hierarchy. It’s about co-creation. Photo: File

Covid concerns have call centres closing doors — and opening new ones

The sector employs 60 000 people in the Western Cape alone. Whereas some centres have cut staff, others are reskilling and preparing for a different future

Urgent action is required to address the constraints to South Africa’s power system and to reduce the usage of the diesel-fired turbines, the council said.
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An emergency budget needs bold decisions, including a bigger public sector

Choosing this path would create work for many while also building the infrastructure that the country needs

Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan. (Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters)

Gordhan steps into SAA crisis, announces a stop to retrenchments

The minister is also expected to announce talks with unions towards a new airline after the shut-down of the cash-strapped national carrier

As SAA subsidiaries declare hardship to staff, business-rescue practitioners urge them to sign agreements to save severance payouts. (John McCann/M&G)

SAA rescuers give affected parties two options: Wind down or liquidate

As SAA subsidiaries declare hardship to staff, business-rescue practitioners urge them to sign agreements to save severance payouts

(Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

South Africa’s Covid-19 economic stimulus plan — opportunity out of crisis

The president’s R500-billion economic package offers a new deal for desperate South Africans across the class divide

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Eusebius McKaiser: A letter to us people who live in the suburbs

The Covid-19 lockdown means wealthy citizens must take a long-overdue look at our privilege. Now is the time for cross-class solidarity

Airline gets another chance as rescue practitioners and Gordhan agree to work on a rescue plan by the end of June
(Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

SAA’s choice: Restructure and cut 2 200 jobs or liquidate and lose 4 700

The business rescue practitioners say 29 of the fleet of 48 planes, various routes and inefficient services also need to go in the state-owned airline is to survive

Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan. (David Harrison/M&G)

SAA’s rescue men fly in defiance

The airline’s business rescue practitioners ignored a warning not to announce route closures and possible job cuts ahead of a restructuring plan

The department of public enterprises is concerned that the proposed sale of assets threatens its plans to engineer SAA 2.0
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Unions vow to push ‘battle for survival’ at SAA

The Labour Court dismisses an application by Numsa and Sacca to have planned job cuts at SAA scrapped