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Payback time for workers fired from Luxor Paints

The company has been ordered to reinstate and compensate employees it dismissed unfairly after a strike. And although a court review may delay justice, the workers won’t give up…

  • Magnificent Mndebele
7 min read
Nationalising the dairy company would save jobs and the Lichtenburg factory, Giwusa said. (Madelene Cronjé)
BASIC CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYEMENT ACT

‘We sacrifice our families for Clover all year’

The strike at the dairy company continues, with exhausted workers demanding an end to compulsory weekend and public holiday work as well as overtime being forced on them

  • Anna Majavu
6 min read
Giwusa’s accusation against L’Oréal comes in the wake of the level-three reopening of the economy, which will send millions of workers back to work — increasing the chance of Covid-19 spreading in workplaces. (Graphic: John McCann/M&G)
BEHAVIOURAL CHANGE

L’Oréal workers demand a shutdown of local plant, citing Covid-19 exposure

The French cosmetics company’s Midrand plant has recorded 16 Covid-19 cases in two weeks

  • Sarah Smit
6 min read