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Browsing Archive: August, 2010

Mdladlana defends labour law amendments

Posted by Ian Ollis on Wednesday, August 11, 2010,
 10 August 2010 - Source: Farzana Rasool, ITWeb

The section of the Labour Relations Act governing labour broking has been removed from the draft amendment Bill, amid talk that the changes were so poorly written that they were kicked out by Cabinet.

However, the labour minister has strongly denied this, without providing the actual reasons for the repeal.

The amendments were expected to either ban labour broking altogether, or increase regulation of the practice.

The Democratic Alliance (DA) is ...


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Whistle-blower accuses the CCMA

Posted by Ian Ollis on Wednesday, August 11, 2010,

10 August 2010 - Source:  Caiphus Kgosana, Times Live

A former Commission for Conciliation Mediation and Arbitration employee has made startling allegations of gross financial mismanagement and unfair labour practices at the body responsible for resolving labour disputes.

Mothibedi Mokoena, formerly of the CCMA audit unit, told Parliament's labour portfolio committee yesterday that he and two colleagues were fired after alerting labour director-general Jimmy Manyi to alleged rot at the...


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Cabinet said to put the brakes on bills

Posted by Ian Ollis on Wednesday, August 11, 2010,

 8 August 2010 - Source: Politics LIVE

The cabinet is weighing four amendments to South African labour legislation that are so poorly drafted they may actually destroy, rather than create jobs, says the DA.

The cabinet is weighing a package of four labour law amendments the would destroy, rather than create jobs, the Democratic Alliance says.

The bills, which are intended in part to constrain or to limit labour broking, have not been formally tabled, but DA labour spokesman Ian Ollis says...


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Shoddy labour-broking legislation sent back

Posted by Ian Ollis on Monday, August 9, 2010,
8 August 2010 - Source: City Press, Jan Jan Joubert

Important new labour legislation affecting labour-broking and other issues was so shoddily written the Cabinet refused to accept it and the proposed new laws have to be redrafted.

Omission of clauses relating to labour brokers, new powers for the Labour Court including exclusive jurisdiction over constitutional matters arising from labour disputes, and new powers for labour inspectors to enter premises without a warrant, are some of the ...

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