Bernadette Enever and Barloworld Equipment South Africa (JA86/22) LAC 2024
There is no rational link between the zero-tolerance policy and personal cannabis use by its employees in the privacy of their homes and the maintenance of safety in the workplace. [Read More…]
NUMSA:
- Wage increase: Numsa proposes a roll-over of the main current agreement with a sweetener of improvement in the first year and with the other two years remaining the same. [Read More…]
The parties to the 2024 industry negotiations have begun to table their demands for this year’s negotiations.
Trade Unions
MEWUSA:
- 12 % across-the-board increase on the actual wage in all categories or grades;
- Doing away with Grade H, but not downgrading Grade G;
- A 3 year agreement should be on status quo;
- The retrenchment ex gratia payment of between 1 and 3 weeks depending on length if service be increased to 4 weeks. [Read More…]
The annual Earnings Threshold has been increased to R254 371.67, as of 01 April 2024. [Read More…]
The Minister of Employment and Labour, empowered to identify and set Employment Equity numerical targets for each national economic sector, has republished the draft regulations which includes the sectoral targets in February this year. [Read More…]
From 1st March 2024 the minimum wage will be R27.58 per hour. [Read More…]
Both the Zimbabwean Exemption permit (ZEP) and the Lesotho
Exemption Permit (LEP) will continue to be valid until 29 November 2025. [Read More…]
Mothers and fathers are unfairly discriminated against in sections of the Basic Conditions of Employment Act and the UIF Act. [Read More…]
In response to the pressing economic crisis in South Africa, COSATU will lead protest action on Friday 06 October 2023. [Read More…]
Is the Employment Equity Amendment Act operative yet. [Read More…]
A settlement agreement has been signed regarding the Employment Equity Amendment Act provisions between the Department of Trade Union Solidarity, after the union filed a complaint with the International Labour Organisation against the government for the rigid application of affirmative action in South Africa. [Read More…]
The Zimbabwean Exemption Permit (ZEP) termination was recently extended to the end of December this year by the Department of Home Affairs. [Read More…]
Despite the Department of Home Affairs’ adamant statement that the deadline of 30 June 2023, the backlog at Home Affairs has resulted to another 6 months until the ZEP expires. [Read More…]
The Labour Court ruled that a blood test is a more reliable test than breathalyser to detect alcohol and reinstated an employee who tested positive for alcohol in three breathalyser tests, but when he went for his own blood test, tested negative. He was reinstated retrospectively back to his dismissal in 2019. [Read More…]
Employment Equity Sector Targets May 2023
The awaited Sector Targets have been published in a government gazette, opening a 30-day consultation period on the targets. [Read More…]