Business Live reports that Nokia Siemens Networks will fire 17 000 workers as part of a plan to save at least €1-billion a year but the company has not yet said where these cuts would be made. Nokia Siemens has been consistently losing money since 2007.
Read more >>South Africa's labour laws, inflexible labour legislation and the country's broad-based black economic empowerment are contributing to the failure of small and medium enterprises, according to
Fin24.
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Reuters, South Africa has lost more than one million jobs since the start of 2009 -- its first year in recession since 1992 - and the ANC is looking at ways to finance its efforts to boost jobs in agriculture and mining.
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The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), one of the Tripartite Alliance partners, said yesterday, Thursday 24 November, that it will proceed with mass action at the end of February next year against the implementation of the Gauteng roads e-toll system.
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Clicks is facing a nationwide strike among members of the Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers' Union (Saccawu) from 1 December according to
Fin24 , which says that the workers are demanding a pay hike of R397 across-the-board.
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Business Day reports that a forensic investigation into the Food and Beverage Manufacturing Industry's Sector Education and Training Authority (Seta) is underway amid allegations of widespread fraud and corruption.
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[Francis Hweshe] The South African Army has revealed the key requirements needed for one to be promoted from one rank to the other. These included the availability of vacancies, right qualifications, one's performance and potential as well as experience and security classification.
Read more >>The Limpopo MEC for Public Works, Thabitha Mohlala is displaying zero-tolerance for workers who consistently arrive at work late and she recently locked out all employees who arrived after the starting time of 8am, reports the
Sowetan.
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