Browsing Archive: August, 2011
Posted by Ian Ollis on Monday, August 22, 2011,
The government has been hit by another hired car scandal, this time involving the Department of Public Service and Administration. The department spent R1.4-million on hiring luxury cars for its deputy ministers for a year because there were "no funds available" to buy an official vehicle.
This was revealed yesterday in parliament by Public Service and Administration Minister Richard Baloyi.
Baloyi admitted that it had taken his department a year to buy an official vehicl...
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Posted by Ian Ollis on Monday, August 22, 2011,
Business Report
August 15, 2011
The time is ripe for a debate on current labour laws, the Democratic Alliance said on Monday in response to Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan's admission that South Africa might have to change its views on the labour dispensation.
“Minister Gordhan's words are a step in the right direction,” said DA MP Ian Ollis in a statement.
“The latest Stats SA quarterly labour force survey indicates that official unemployment has surged to 25.7 percent, with 174,000 more ...
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Posted by Ian Ollis on Sunday, August 7, 2011,
The Daily Maverick - 28th July 2011
A founder member of the United Nations’ biggest division, the centenarian International Labour Organisation, South Africa once again showed leadership, discipline and diplomacy in what is arguably the world’s most demanding tripartite gathering.I have now twice attended the International Labour Organisation’s conference in Geneva. The ILO is the largest division within the United Nations. It’s 100 years old this year and South Africa was a founder m...
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Posted by Ian Ollis on Sunday, August 7, 2011,
The government this week expressed its horror at statistics showing that whites still dominated the top echelons of private sector company management, but the Employment Equity Commission’s black mark for business masked a real shift in workplace racial composition.
Labour Minister Mildred Oliphant said she was “aghast” at the figures, which showed that top management remained overwhelmingly lily-white – and predominantly male – and would take nearly 130 years to correct at the curre...
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