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The Democratised Transport Logistics and Allied Workers’ Union (Detawu) has called on luxury coach operator Greyhound to re-employ workers who lost their jobs last year.

Greyhound said that bookings were officially open and that travel would start on 13 April following the company's relaunch in Johannesburg on Wednesday.

Greyhound spokesperson Leslie Matthews chats to Breakfast host Refilwe Moloto.

Unitrans may have breached labour laws in Greyhound closure - unions By Bongani Hans Share Durban - Unitrans Passenger, which owns Greyhound and Citiliner Coaches, has been accused by labour unions of breaching labour laws in the hasty announcement to shut down operations, rendering hundreds of their members jobless. The unions have undertaken to take the matter to the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA), where they will present their argument that they were kept in the dark ahead of the shutdown announcement. Unitrans allegedly took the decision unanimously and eve...

Small business owners closing shop and feeling the financial squeeze At the beginning of the lockdown, the government embarked on the difficult task of simultaneously protecting lives and livelihoods during the pandemic, but recent data shows that businesses are still folding.  In January, StatsSA announced that the overall number of companies that have been liquidated increased by 20.5% in the fourth quarter of 2020 compared to the same period in 2019. This decline has resulted in a 14.2% year-on-year increase in the number of liquidations. The list of companies that are intending to shut t...