Facilitation process for higher wages ends at bargaining council for public servants

Unions representing SA’s more than 1.3-million public servants must now get a mandate from members on whether to accept the revised wage offer

MTBPS: Cosatu urges minister to avoid business-as-usual approach to ills

The best way to curb public debt is to stimulate economic growth and spur job creation, says Matthew Parks

State revises wage offer to 4.7% for public servants

Department of public service & administration’s initial offer was 3%

Numsa demands 15% wage hike from arms manufacturer Denel

Union says workers have suffered severely because of cost-cutting measures

Salga president tells unions to help get local government in order

Labour and civil society are important in holding municipalities to account and ensuring proper use of public resources, Bheki Stofile tells conference

Tshwane metro and Samwu set for bruising labour court battle

The city refused to implement a 3.5% salary hike for employees in 2021 and another 5.4% wage increase in 2023, citing a lack of funds

Cosatu marches against socioeconomic crises

Labour federation and SACP leaders say ‘neoliberal’ GNU is ‘highest form of betrayal of our people’

Delinquent employers fined R10m by labour department

The labour department conducted 2,681 inspections across SA in September

Tough pay talks are looming for government

Public servants demand a 12% pay hike despite inflation easing for a third consecutive month to 4.4%

WATCH: What’s really driving the strike at BMW?

Business Day TV speaks to Financial Mail editor-at-large David Furlonger

Numsa, BMW SA to meet over medical fraud investigation

Union calls for full explanation while carmaker denies talk of mass retrenchments

Cosatu takes aim at companies flouting the minimum wage

Union federation wants firms banned from public sector tenders

Union calls Seriti’s retrenchment bid a ‘declaration of war’

Fighting talk from union as coal miner seeks to retrench more than 1,100

Disgruntled BMW SA workers embark on strike over ‘fraud investigation’

Carmaker denies claims of mass dismissals at Rosslyn plant, says protest is a response to a fraud investigation within the medical aid scheme

NUM signs wage deal with Petra Diamonds

Union agrees to five-year above-inflation deal as  retrenchments loom at Cullinan and Finsch mines

Fiscal wild card as public servants demand 12% wage hike

‘Total madness’ and the first real test of the unity government, says Dawie Roodt

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