The need to send employees for forklift training is not only driven by its potential to reduce costs and injury, but is an important legal requirement, too. According to the Occupational Health and Safety Act, 85 of 1993, Driven Machinery...
The National Employers’ Association of South Africa (NEASA) has requested the Minister of Labour not to extend an agreement entered into between employers and trade unions in the road freight industry late last year. Although NEASA is a...
Supply chain company Barloworld Logistics has denied claims by trade union Solidarity that it plans retrenching ex-Telkom staff. On Wednesday, Solidarity said former Telkom employees who had been transferred to Barloworld Logistics earlier this...
South Africa’s economy is doing well. But, the same can’t be said of its labour market, says the Freemarket Foundation’s Loane Sharpe. Speaking at a transport conference, in May, Sharpe said that current labour productivity in South Africa is, in...
