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CCMA case increases from national minimum wage

Article Thando Maeko - 14 Oct 2019

Cases referred to the organisation increased by 4% since last year

CCMA conference highlights minimum wage struggles

Article Musawenkosi Cabe - 1 Oct 2019

Numerous applications for exemption are hampering the government’s efforts to reach its target of six million workers being paid the minimum wage

CCMA cases pile up with new law

Article Tshegofatso Mathe - 5 Jul 2019

But both the commission and the department of labour say they have everything under control

Domestic workers: overworked, underpaid and unprotected

Article Zandile Bangani - 1 Jul 2019

Armed with brooms and mops, domestic workers took to the streets to demand better wages, recourse to legal protection against unscrupulous employers

‘Tiso Blackstar is just the beginning’

Article Sarah Smit - 21 Jun 2019

With half of all journalism jobs gone in South Africa, one union is trying to halt the decline

Job losses threatens the CSIR’s reputation

Article Jacques Coetzee - 22 Mar 2019

The council's climate change research could suffer from job cuts

Fixed-term contracts – there must be a justifiable reason to use them

Article Staff Reporter - 19 Mar 2019

A dismissal is when an employee reasonably expected the employer to renew a contract of employment, but the employer did not renew it

Headaches on wage front

Article Tebogo Tshwane - 18 Jan 2019

The exemption process threatens to undermine the new minimum income criteria

Comair strike by Numsa-affiliated ground staff averted, for now

Article Agency - 21 Dec 2018

Numsa, in a statement, said the two sides would continue talks in early January over wages and shift patterns

Deadly twist to university dispute

Article Athandiwe Saba - 7 Dec 2018

A former colleague has been charged with the murder of an arts dean after threatening him

Cape school accused of coercing black teacher to resign

Article Raeesa Pather - 2 Nov 2018

Rustenburg Girls’ Junior School allegedly ‘coerced’ teacher Nozipho Mthembu to leave

Why changes to picketing rules in South Africa pose a threat to strikes

Article Staff Reporter - 21 Oct 2018

Proposed changes to South African labour laws threaten to set back workers rights

Solidarity accuses Sasol of being ‘reckless’ as strike drags on

Article Agency - 17 Sep 2018

Hundreds of white Solidarity members are on strike over their exclusion from Sasol's new B-BBEE employee share scheme

CCMA plans to intervene in Sasol strike — Solidarity

Article Lameez Omarjee - 8 Sep 2018

Solidarity has since formally informed the CCMA that the trade union would participate in the process

Racism in the Cape Town yoga community: One instructor’s story

Article Kopano Maroga - 28 Aug 2018

'The unrepentant violence of white ignorance has consequences for people of colour that are continually overlooked,' writes Kopano Maroga

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