South Africa has lost 426 000 jobs in the formal, non-agricultural economy in the past 15 months, according to Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan.
The New Age quotes Gordhan as saying that the pace of job creation in South Africa has been far too slow, while wage levels in the public and private sectors have increased.
Read more >>In what has been labelled as a disgraceful practice, the Department of Labour is investigating opportunistic farmers accused of employing Zimbabwean farm workers and domestic workers and then, instead of paying them on payday, reporting them to the immigration officials and having them deported instead.
Read more >>A R50-million jobs fund has been set up in the Eastern Cape and the province's economic development minister Mcebisi Jonas says that it will expand to R150-million by next year, according to a report on Fin24.
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Services to the Robben Island Museum are running as normal despite an indefinite strike by about 140 employees belonging to the National Education, Health and Allied Workers' Union who work at the museum, according to IOL.
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Boston City Campus & Business College is offering bursaries worth R3-million to students who want to study at its facilities as part of a LeadSA campaign, according to an article published in
The Star.
Read more >>Human resource practitioners are responsible for building systems, policies and frameworks that reduce disputes and encourage ethical behaviour in the workplace. Sadly this is not the case. Both public and private sector institutions incur high costs over dispute resolutions. Evidence of unethical behaviour continues to surface at the workplace from senior to junior staff members.
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SKOPJE, MACEDONIA: The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), the European group of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), expressed its unwavering support for trade union rights and press freedom in South East Europe after a regional roundtable in Skopje.
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