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One million more unemployed since the fourth quarter of 2008

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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Training Layoff Scheme: R2.4-billion allocated, 3 000 trained

Posted by Ian Ollis on Thursday, February 25, 2010,
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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12 of 23 SETAs have not trained retrenched workers

Posted by Ian Ollis on Thursday, October 22, 2009,

29 September 2009

The admission by twelve SETAs during the Labour portfolio committee sittings over September that they have not trained a single retrenched worker is a serious indictment of government’s much touted economic rescue plan. Government has missed the boat – thousands of workers face unemployment and yet the ANC government is doing what it does best: sitting with their arms folded and waiting for another round of intervention while urgent needs are not addressed.

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SETAs failing to fulfil the most basic requirements

Posted by Ian Ollis on Thursday, October 22, 2009,
Release: 9 September 2009

The admission by three SETAs (Construction, Media and Local Government) during yesterday’s Labour portfolio committee sitting that they have not trained a single retrenched worker is a serious indictment of government’s much touted economic rescue plan.
 
The DA believes the SETA system is badly conceived from first principles (it does not give people the right skills and the private sector has to retrain them) but, if yesterday’s portfolio briefing is anything ...

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