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Cosatu and affiliated unions marched in Cape Town and Johannesburg on Friday. They want the government to act against rising job losses and to enforce labour law.


Karin Calitz, a Stellenbosch University emeritus professor, has called for sweeping reforms including a code allowing employees to disconnect by ignoring after-hours WhatsApps and e-mails.

Dr Lawrence McCrystal and Adv Hein van der Walt of Cofesa have some ideas on how to achieve the reforms the country so badly needs.

Polokwane couple argue that both parents should be entitled to the same leave when a baby is born.

The Labour Department said employers will also be arrested for violating the Immigration Act if they hire undocumented workers.

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A Polokwane couple has launched a constitutional challenge to employment laws, arguing that provisions which allow only women to take four months of 'maternity' leave are discriminatory.

The couple, together with Sonke Gender Justice have now turned to the courts where they’re seeking to, among others, have the current definition of maternity leave in the act expanded so as to include “parental” and “care-giving leave”.

Starting a small business begins with great enthusiasm. However, going hand in hand, are the regulatory requirements from government.

Every August, South Africans engage in a national conversation about women and gender equality ignoring the inequalities they perpetuate in their own homes, and domestic workers are tired, write Pinky Mashiane and Kelebogile Khunou.