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The Commercial, Stevedoring, Agricultural and Allied Workers union (Csaawu) announced today that it will not be forced to close down.

The union faced bankruptcy after two Labour Court judgements in 2014 that awarded costs against the farmworkers and the union. This debt amounted to nearly R600,000.

The government has officially opened up its own employment agency to help jobless people find work. Called the Public Employment Service, the agency will have desks in labour department offices countrywide, which will enable jobseekers to apply for jobs in both the public and private sector.

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.