Labour

End in sight for silicosis case?

Anglo American and Gold Fields may settle with miners and their families

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Analysis | 11 August 2017

Companies using labour brokers to evade workers’ rights

Labour Relations Act unlawfully circumvented by middlemen despite judgment

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Law | 29 July 2017

Janitors struggle to cope with Wallacedene’s filthy toilets

City promises immunisation shots for workers and that all necessary equipment and chemicals will be delivered

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News | 24 July 2017

City-hired security company suspends 250 employees

Workers claim they are placed where there is no clean water, toilets or electricity

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News | 21 July 2017

10111 agents down phones

Call centre employees strike over poor working conditions and low salaries

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News | 19 July 2017

Asylum seekers entitled to UIF

Court orders Department of Labour to pay out

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Law | 18 July 2017

Court victory for workers hired via labour brokers

Client company is considered employer if worker has been at company more than three months

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Law | 17 July 2017

Robertson’s dumping ground for farm workers

Councillor threatens GroundUp after we ask questions

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Feature | 10 July 2017

Workers fear job losses after forestry burns

200 people evacuated from Longmore Sawmill

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News | 9 June 2017

Agents threaten to close down police call centre

Call centre agents say salary increase was agreed to in 2013

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Brief | 7 June 2017

Cape Town parking marshals made to work through storm

“We are staying in shacks. We don’t know what is going to happen at home”

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Brief | 7 June 2017

Hundreds of outsourced workers on strike at Coega export company

Outsource company disputes union’s right

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Brief | 6 June 2017

Farm labourers dumped in remote town after wage dispute

“It is unfortunate that in this age people are still being treated like animals.”

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News | 23 May 2017

UCT warns against unlawful work stoppages

University responds to protesting catering workers

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Brief | 10 May 2017

No compromise between UWC security company and 144 dismissed workers

Guards have been out of work for four months

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Brief | 5 May 2017

National strike at food export board

Workers demand 8.5% increase

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News | 3 May 2017