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/ 25 January 2010
Workers have yet to see any proof of a recovery from the recession, despite what academics and the media are saying, Cosatu says.
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/ 17 December 2009
It will be a black Christmas for about five million South Africans this year after the devastating economic crisis, Cosatu said on Thursday.
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/ 15 December 2009
The formal sector has lost about 330 000 jobs in the past 12 months, according to trade union Solidarity.
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/ 11 December 2009
Why does it take the loss of a million jobs to get business and labour to call for measures to protect jobs?
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/ 3 December 2009
SA may still lose more jobs even though the economy began growing again in the last quarter, President Jacob Zuma said on Thursday.
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/ 29 October 2009
SA’s official jobless rate increased to 24,5% of the labour force in the third quarter of 2009, from 23,6% in the second quarter, a report shows.
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/ 18 September 2009
Despite his PhD, Kevin Goddard finds himself among the murky family of the unemployed.
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/ 4 September 2009
The pace of US job losses hit a one-year low last month but the unemployment rate jumped to a 26-year high of 9,7%, the government said on Friday.
Government is shaking up a cocktail of unemployment, skills and incentive funding to ward off the worst of the current recession.
As SA’s unemployment lines keep growing in its first post-apartheid recession, Johannesburg’s sidewalks are increasingly crowded with street traders.
SA’s official jobless rate ticked up slightly in the second quarter, a labour report showed on Tuesday.
The government is still committed to halving unemployment and poverty by 2014, despite the global economic downturn, Trevor Manuel said on Tuesday.
SA’s drive to create millions of job opportunities will cost R10-billion over the next three years, Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies said.
We all know that fewer companies are hiring, and more companies are downsizing, but now the numbers have emerged. And they look gloomy.
Mooinooi, a one-employer town, where many workers have a single skill, is hurting badly as a result of Wall Street’s excesses.
Growing unemployment will make it hard for the ANC to meet its target of halving unemployment within the first two decades of freedom, Cosatu said.
Amid a furore over the news of a drop in SA’s unemployment rate to 21,9%, Stats SA said on Thursday that the lower rate is statistically correct.
The economic crisis will give way to a more enduring era of economic development in Africa, Finance Minister Trevor Manuel said on Monday.
SA will meet a 2014 target to halve unemployment, a Cabinet minister said on Saturday, despite the prospect of rising job losses.
Employment growth in SA is steadily declining but the country remains better off than many others, consulting company Grant Thornton said on Thursday.
Look at it this way, it could be worse. At least there is 2010. Or maybe not. Phillip de Wet reports.
South Africa’s unemployment rate dropped slightly to 21,9% in the quarter ended December 2008 from 23,2% in the third quarter, data showed on Monday.
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/ 19 February 2009
Government, business and labour finalised a blueprint on Thursday for minimising the effect of the global financial crisis on the SA economy.
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/ 29 January 2009
Zimbabwe’s unemployment rate has spiked to 94%, meaning that fewer than half a million people there are formally employed, the UN said on Thursday.
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/ 23 January 2009
The tentacles of the deepening global recession are reaching Africa’s largest economy, which is at risk of slipping into recession in 2009.
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/ 22 January 2009
Microsoft reported disappointing earnings on Thursday and plans to cut up to 5 000 jobs as US jobless claims rose more than expected.
The United States unemployment rate surged to its highest level in nearly 16 years in December.
Tensions mounting between native job-seekers and immigrants competing for a declining pool of work in Spain will intensify in 2009.
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/ 22 December 2008
Barack Obama’s administration signalled on Sunday that it was preparing the biggest economic stimulus in US history to avert mass unemployment.
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/ 15 December 2008
Trade union Solidarity said on Monday that it expects many things will start going right for the country in 2009.
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/ 9 December 2008
Young professionals have struggled to find work in a sliding economy, but one area — Silicon Valley — has been relatively immune. Until now.
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/ 9 December 2008
All the odds seem to be heavily stacked against South Africa’s goal of halving unemployment by 2014, industry players said late on Tuesday.