Browsing Archive: May, 2010
Posted by Ian Ollis on Thursday, May 20, 2010,
Press Release: 17 May 2010
A Democratic Alliance (DA) parliamentary question
has revealed that the Department of Labour spent nearly R
350 000 on an end-of-year function for 150
department officials in December 2009. Guests from around the country
were treated to return flights to Gauteng, hotel accommodation at an
average cost of R 1400 per person and a party at the luxury Irene
Country Lodge. Considering the current employment crisis – one million
jobs lost between 2008 and 2009 - i...
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Posted by Ian Ollis on Thursday, May 20, 2010,
Posted by Ian Ollis on Monday, May 17, 2010,
Press Release: 5 May 2010
The Labour Department must explain
what happened to R1-billion in Compensation Fund payouts, after a
presentation to the Parliamentary Labour Committee this week revealed an
inexplicable R1-billion shortfall in compensation paid out to injured
workers in this last financial year.
During
2009/10 there has been a dramatic decline in payouts – from 150,090,
amounting to R2,9 billion in 2008/09, to 87,800, amounting to R1,9
billion in 2009/10.
What is particularl...
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Posted by Ian Ollis on Monday, May 17, 2010,
Press Release: 4 May 2010
Figures released today by
Statistics South Africa show a 0.9% increase in unemployment in the
first quarter, to 25.2%. This means that 171 000 jobs were lost between
the fourth quarter of 2009 and the first quarter of 2010. The further
rise in unemployment is particularly concerning given that there are
signs of recovery elsewhere in the economy.
Since the fourth quarter
of 2008, unemployment has risen 3.3%; this amounts to one million more
unemployed people in...
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Posted by Ian Ollis on Monday, May 17, 2010,
Press Release: 20 April 2010
The
refusal by Director General (DG) of Labour, Jimmy Manyi, to publicly
apologise before Parliament for his attempt to inflate the Department’s
budget by R 1 billion must be met by action from the Minister. The DA
revealed that Manyi had attempted to inflate the budget of the
department, in order to offer a post facto legitimate reason for
requesting the additional funding in the first place. Upon hearing this,
the Minister of Labour, Membathisi Mdladlana...
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Posted by Ian Ollis on Sunday, May 9, 2010,
Press Release: 7 May 2010
Figures released by
Statistics South Africa this week indicate that despite a 1% rise in
unemployment nationally between the last quarter of 2009 and the first
quarter of 2010, the unemployment rate in the DA-governed Western Cape
has fallen by more than 1% during the same time period.
This offers clear evidence that, where the Democratic
Alliance (DA) governs, the vision of an Open Opportunity Society is
bearing fruit. These figures reflect the stro...
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