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The SA Communist Party has also faced challenges with the payment of staff salaries.

There are currently no plans to discontinue the use of coal as part of the country's energy mix, according to Deputy President David Mabuza...

On 1 January 2019, section 73A of the Basic Conditions of Employment Act 75 of 1997 (BCEA) came into effect. This relatively new provision permits employees earning below the prescribed threshold to claim monies owing to them in terms of the National Minimum Wage Act, the BCEA, a collective agreement, a sectoral determination or a contract of employment at the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA). In the CCMA matter of Cousins v Bill Buchanan Association [2022] 1 BALR 46 (CCMA), the disruptions occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic and the civil unrest of July ...

The Congress of South African Trade Unions is troubled by the media reports indicating that the SACP owes its staff members cumulatively six (6) months’ wages. This is discreditable and disconcerting not only for the SACP but the entire Tripartite Alliance. The South African Communist Party (SACP) must pay its employees what is due to them immediately. The SACP is the vanguard of the working class that is meant to champion working class struggles, and this is undermining its credibility in the eyes of the workers. The Party like all other employers needs to abide by South Africa’s ...

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