Times Live ~ Dec 18, 2010 7:38 PM | By BRENDAN BOYLE

The Department of Labour wants to radically redesign the workplace - and increase state surveillance in the corporate world. The Department of Labour has revealed a plan to radically redesign the work environment, enforcing equal pay for equal work and setting up a state employment agency to which every private sector job vacancy and every new hire will have to be reported.

Four bills released for public comment on Friday by the new...
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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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Press Release: 19 February 2010

The Director General of Labour Jimmy Manyi has admitted to the Portfolio Committee on Labour that the Training Layoff Scheme has trained, or is in the process of training, only 3 000 retrenched workers from five companies. The Training Layoff Scheme was presented to the public amidst much fanfare by the ANC government, who presented it as their “rescue plan”, but this admission demonstrates the true extent of its failure. With R2.4 billion allocated specific...
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