Recent news
Latest items of recent news relevant to South Africa as reported in our fortnightly newswire ‘Dernières nouvelles’.
South Africa: Proposed reduction of employers’ contributions
South Africa’s Ministry of Finance is proposing a temporary reduction of employers’ and employees’ contributions to the Unemployment Insurance Fund …
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South Africa: Long-term visas available for BRICS countries
The government of South Africa recently announced its endorsement of long-term port-of-entry visas for its BRICS partner countries …
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South Africa: Minimum wage hike for retail and wholesale sector
Workers in the wholesale and retail sector in South Africa recently received a minimum wage increase …
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South Africa: Greater employment protection for vulnerable groups
The Labour Relations Amendment Act is now in force in South Africa …
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South Africa: Failure to stop the extension of a wage agreement
The Johannesburg Labour Court has dismissed a claim submitted by the National Employers’ Association of South Africa to stop a wage agreement, agreed between certain employers and unions in July, from being extended to the rest of the metals and engineering sector …
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South Africa: Premature resignation proves expensive for employee
In a recent case, the Supreme Court of South Africa had to decide whether an employee who resigned before the expiration of an agreed fixed term was liable to repay both past incentive amounts paid under the company’s employee retention scheme and future amounts that would have fallen due …
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South Africa: Draft code of good practice on equal pay
Two months after the Employment Equity Amendments came into force, the South African Department of Labour has published a draft code of good practice on equal pay for work of equal value …
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South Africa: Wage agreement in clothing industry
Following months of negotiations, a wage agreement affecting approximately 80,000 employees in the clothing industry in South Africa has finally been signed by the Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers Union …
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South Africa: Lockout declared legal
An employer’s lockout (the exclusion of employees from their workplace) has been declared legal in South Africa …
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South Africa: Amendments to the Employment Equity Act
Amendments to the Employment Equity Act came into effect in South Africa earlier this month …
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South Africa: Labour Relations Amendment Act
The South African President, Jacob Zuma, has given assent to a new Labour Relations Amendment Act which aims to give greater employment protection to temporary workers …
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South Africa: Wage agreements reached
South Africa’s National Union of Mineworkers has recently signed two important wage agreements …
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South Africa: Plans to introduce minimum wage (2014)
South Africa’s Department of Labour has announced that it is looking into the possibility of introducing a national minimum wage …
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