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Smart Sheet: Public Holiday Payment [Plastics]
PUBLIC HOLIDAY PAYMENT
As Provided in the Consolidated Plastics Industry Agreement
[extended to 30 June 2021]
Are your Covid-19 policies meaningless?
As pandemic fatigue grows, so does the responsibility to ensure that the protocols, policies and practises put in place to safeguard our employees [and indeed society at large] remain clearly defined, communicated to all, and are enforced. In a recent case an employee...
Vaccine roll-out programme
Through Business for South Africa (B4SA), Business Unity South Africa (BUSA) is working with the Government to increase the number of vaccination sites in the country as part of phases 2 and 3 of the vaccination programe. They are calling on companies which have sites...
SEIFSA Bursary 2021
Are you a South African citizen , 35 years old or younger and achieved 75% in maths and science in matric and meet the below criteria: Be a South African citizen 35 years old or younger Good academic results for Mathematics and Science with a minimum of 75% average on...
Government Support required to revive the Sector
YEAR-LONG VIEW OF THE METALS AND ENGINEERING SECTOR CONCLUDES THAT GOVERNMENT POLICY SUPPORT IS ESSENTIAL TO REVIVE THE SECTOR The Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of Southern Africa (SEIFSA) today released its flagship publication, The State of the Metals...
Strategic return to work approach to Covid-19
Employees and employers alike, sighed a collective sigh of relief at the end of 2020 when businesses closed for year end. After a year which felt both long and short at the same time, taking time off to recovery was on the top of the list of things to do! This short...
Renewal and Extension of MEIBC Registration and Administration Expenses Collective Agreement
Dear All, We do hope that your Christmas period was relaxed a peaceful. Please see this urgent announcement: RENEWAL AND EXTENSION OF MEIBC REGISTRATION AND ADMINISTRATION EXPENSES COLLECTIVE AGREEMENT: EFFECTIVE 23 DECEMBER 2020 (Download Gazette) Attached please...
Manufacturers cannot afford further increase in electricity tariffs if the economy is to be revived, says SEIFSA
JOHANNESBURG, 7 DECEMBER 2020 – Manufacturing businesses in South Africa cannot afford a further electricity tariff hike, given the strain the economy is under, Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of Southern Africa (SEIFSA) Chief Economist Chifipa Mhango said...
Compensation for Domestic Workers: precedent set
(Photograph by Ihsaan Haffejee) “It’s unbelievable. We feel like flying, we are so happy. I nearly broke into song inside [the Constitutional Court], breaking the law…” These were the words of 77-year-old Eunice Dhladhla, a domestic workers’ union organiser, after the...
WHAT ARE YOUR CURRENT COVID-19 OHS OBLIGATIONS?
On the 1st October 2020, Notice R.1031 was published in Government Gazette No. 43751, in terms of which the Minister of Employment and Labour issued Consolidated Directions on Occupational Health and Safety Measures in the workplace. It is noted that there are...