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The Department of Public Works and Infrastructure (DPWI) has gazetted the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) Policy for public comment in the Government Gazette No: 46917.

Cape Town – Government aims to create six million work opportunities for young people by 2019, says President Jacob Zuma.

Public employment programmes balance the need for both economic and social aspects of well-being while a basic income grant prioritises economic well-being, while social well-being and social value is overlooked, writes Lauren Stuart.

Mr Edwin Melvin Snowe Jr., Chairman, Economic Community of West African States Community Parliament’s Committee on Political Affairs, Peace, Security and Africa Peer Review Mechanism, has attributed the surge in the threat of terrorism within the West Africa, to hunger and joblessness. Mr Snowe Jr. in an interview with the…

The Federal Government has earmarked 1.2 million dollars to ensure that about 5,500

In Greece workers including bus, rail and ferry workers walk out to commemorate May Day, raising demands over pay and conditions; continuing protests and strikes in Iran including by petrochemical workers and pensioners against poverty pay and cost of living crisis; Nigerian communication workers in three-day warning strike against Huawei over unpaid wages for March

Committee hopes that the department will prioritise the filling of other vacant senior management positions

Hundreds march to Luthuli House on Workers’ Day, demanding higher wages

Hundreds of Community Work Programme (CWP) workers marched to the ANC headquarters in Johannesburg on Monday.

Community Work Programme (CWP) workers employed by the Department of COGTA, have spent two days outside the head office in Pretoria.