Earnings threshold for employees has been increased
Please be aware, the earnings threshold has been increased by the Minister of Labour and is effective from the 1st of July 2014! The new earnings threshold is now R205 433.33 or R17 [...]
What good is industrial action?
Given the recent upsurge in strike activity (Recent Amcu / Platinum) and now the national strike by NUMSA in the Metal Engineering Industries, the question has to be asked what good industrial action [...]
Intellectual Property Rights: Vodacom “ Please Call Me “ Case
In terms of the Copyright Act, the ownership of copyright in a work product which an employee created during the course and within the scope of his / her employment remains with the [...]
Cosatu, ANC to meet on Numsa
JOHANNESBURG – Eyewitness News has learnt that the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) is due to meet tomorrow with the African National Congress (ANC)’s intervention team. The ANC task team, established [...]
Numsa Strike: It IS about policitcs
Trust Zwelinzima Vavi to tell it like it is. “A demand for a living wage is political, because it is politics that allowed such conditions 20 years into a democracy,” the Congress of [...]
SANDF wants SANDU to come clean
JOHANNESBURG - The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) has called on the South African National Defence Union (SANDU) to come clean about its intentions after it secured a court order for the [...]
Vodacom prevails in ‘please call’ case
During the more than year-long case, Vodacom’s legal team argued that the issue was never about intellectual property. Instead, it hinged on whether Geissler was authorised to enter into a contract on behalf [...]