Limpopo nurses and other healthcare workers say they are preparing for a protected strike over the unilateral implementation of a new duty roster system.
28 January, 2021A number of IndustriALL affiliates in Zambia and Zimbabwe are implementing recommendations from gender audits that took place in November and December 2020. The gender audits are a response to reports of increased violence against women during the Covid-19 lockdowns in most countries in Sub Saharan Africa.
The gender audits stressed that although the unions are complying with labour laws on gender more needs to be done to protect the rights of women workers.
ILO Convention 190 provides an opportunity to address gender-based violence and harassment in the world of work. It is argued in the audits that if Convention 190 is ratified and domesticated in Zambia and Zimbabwe, gender relations and equality will improve.
Restaurants body protests over alcohol ban
By Lyse Comins
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Durban - RESTAURANT Association of South Africa (Rasa) chief executive Wendy Alberts is leading a sit-in protest outside the Union Buildings in Tshwane until President Cyril Ramaphosa and his ministers agree to speak to her about the plight of the failing sector.
Alberts said that about 4Â 000 restaurants out of 11Â 000 restaurants nationally had closed as a result of the alcohol ban and 9pm curfew imposed in December and an estimated 500Â 000 out of 1 million jobs had been decimated because of the lockdown.
Alberts said restaurantsâ financial models relied on turnover from alcohol sales to ensure businesses remained profitable and with no end in sight to the ban, restaurants were being forced to close.
It was a glum and rainy morning when the late minister in the Presidency was laid to rest at the Pretoria Memorial Park cemetery in his hometown of Emalahleni, Mpumalanga on Sunday 24 January.
Mthembu passed away on Thursday 21 January from Covid-19 related complications at Netcare Milpark Hospital in Johannesburg. He was bade farewell in an official category-one funeral service at the Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church near his home in Ackerville township, Emalahleni.
President Cyril Ramaphosa was sombre as he delivered the eulogy to a small cohort of family, friends and government officials. The funeral was limited to 50 people, as per the Disaster Management regulations.
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Further strikes by UK energy workers
Following a five-day strike, engineers and office staff at energy company British Gas, owned by Centrica, held a further strike on Wednesday with another due today.
The GMB union members voted by an 89 percent majority for action. They are opposed to the company’s plans to “fire and rehire,” putting workers on a contract with less favourable conditions and 20 percent pay cut. Those involved in the strike included 4,000 service and repair gas engineers, 1,700 smart metering engineers, 600 central heating installers, 540 electrical engineers and 170 specialist business gas engineers. The strikers carried out socially distanced pickets throughout the country.