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South Africa saw 88 strikes in 2014, which cost the country’s economy R6.1 billion, according the Department of Labour. In 2013, South Africa recorded 114 strikes, but the overall impact was much heavier in 2014 as the total number of strike days in creased from between 1 to 5 in 2014, to up to 20 in 2014.

The Department of labour takes pleasure in inviting you to the Employment Equity Road Show 2015.

The Constitutional Court dismissed the Commercial, Stevedoring, Agricultural & Allied Workers Union (CSAAWU)’s plea to overturn a cost order by the Labour Court amounting to R600,000 in legal fees.

Byna 1 500 maatskappye gaan voor die hof gedaag word weens versuim om aan wetsvereistes oor diensbillikheid te voldoen.

Die kommissie vir diensbillikheid (Commission for Employment Equity, CEE) het vanoggend die 2014-verslag daaroor in Pretoria bekend gestel.

VIRGIL ANZEL SEAFIELD has been appointed deputy director-general: Labour Policy and Industrial Relations (LP andamp; IR) in the Department of Labour with effect from 1 July. Seafield replaces Les Kettledas, who went into retirement last year. Before assuming the position the incumbent was chief director: Statutory and Advocacy Services in the Department of Labour.

The Department of Labour is planning to have national public hearings regarding the revision of the Sec 13, to be implemented from 1 March 2016.

The earnings threshold published in terms of the Basic Conditions of Employment Act (BCEA) is currently R205,433.30 per annum.

Employees who earn below this threshold amount are entitled to the protection of the working hour provisions of the BCEA.

Recent violent attacks on foreign nationals in South Africa that left seven people dead have been blamed in part on high unemployment. This issue of @Liberty suggests remedies for the latter problem. In particular, it proposes a new set of ideas and policies to restore balance to the country’s industrial relations system and liberalise its labour market. These ideas are put forward not simply because high unemployment may be a contributing factor in public violence, but because our high unemployment levels are both morally unacceptable and a waste of human and economic potential.

Agri SA het gister van ‘n gespreksgeleentheid met die sekretaris-generaal van die ANC, mnr Gwede Mantashe, gebruik gemaak om weereens sy kommer oor onwerkbare grondhervormingvoorstelle van die regering toe te lig en te versoek dat die staat eerder vrywillige skemas moet ondersteun wat teen ‘n veel laer koste goeie resultate kan oplewer.

In a properly functioning democracy, the Labour Minister is charged with concerns of employees in their broadest sense – mostly to exploring and promote ways to boost employment and create wealth. Not South Africa. Here the incumbent, who hails from organised labour, solidly supports the monopolistic philosophy upon which trade unionism is founded: Protection and support of those inside the union at the cost of job seekers who are locked out the system. And we wonder why South Africa’s legislation is the most labour-friendly on earth? Or why unemployment remains stubbornly above 25%? – Alec Hogg