Labour law amendments will throttle job creation

Hospersa has welcomed reports stating that the North West (NW) Provincial Legislature has laid charges against the province’s Health Head of Department (HOD) over a contract to a “Gupta-linked” company.

Hospersa has sent an open letter to the Minister of Health regarding the re-utilisation of contract staff and the outsourcing of ambulance services in the North West Province. The letter questions the use of a Temporary Employment Services agency when there are vacant and funded posts available in the institutions.

Oraganised labour this week cautiously welcomed Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene’s promises to trim the fat and do more with less state resources.

The resistance to electronic tolling on Gauteng freeways has been hailed as the largest civil disobedience campaign in the history of SA’s democracy, but not everyone agrees that motorists’ widespread refusal to pay e-tolls qualifies as civil disobedience.

The Health & Other Service Personnel Trade Union of South Africa (Hospersa) is opposing the bail for the suspects who attacked Emergency Medical Services (EMS) members in Cape Town over the festive period. The Union calls for measures to be taken to protect its members being attacked by gang members in so-called red zones in the Cape Town area. In the meantime ambulance personnel would have the right to refuse entry into certain identified dangerous areas.