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What to expect from the announcement on Thursday
Prof Andre Roux is an economist at Stellenbosch Business School
Just as the Reserve Bank Governor announced the increase in the repo rate two months...
Opinion piece: Meeting the need for skills and labour to solve South Africa’s intensifying...
By Wayne Alcock, Managing Director at Quyn International Outsourcing
South Africa’s recent energy crisis escalation into Level 5 and 6 load shedding has highlighted the...
Break the mould. Build a future. Fund a job for a woman.
THE Youth Employment Service (YES) is doing the breaking for women, tearing apart the gender inequality cycle by partnering with corporates to create future-facing opportunities...
Labour, government and industry need to drive skills development
The focus of organised labour, as well as the public and private sector needs to shift towards developing the proficiencies of the vast number...
Is there a need for TES in SA’s construction industry?
IT is without a doubt that many industries have taken a serious knock during the pandemic. Those involved in South Africa’s construction industry had...
South Africans work the most hours in the world
A recent report has confirmed the complaints so many South Africans are familiar with by now, showing that citizens of our country work the...
Judy Dlamini: Women must work 3 times harder in patriarchal societies
Women must work three times harder than men to prove themselves in the existing patriarchal society, according to leading businesswoman Dr Judy Dlamini.
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Three major new labour laws that every South African needs to know about
Parliament’s Select Committee on Economic and Business Development recently passed a series of Labour Bills.
According to law firm Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr (CDH),...
Farm robotics impact on labour shortage being ‘over-estimated’
Gaps between developing market-ready technology and on-farm use mean farm businesses could have to wait a long time until they see the benefits.
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South Africans the hardest working employees globally
South African workers are some of the most hard-working in world, with discretionary effort levels double that of the global average, according to CEB (NYSE: CEB),...
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