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22 June 2020
Mail & Guardian
Moloko Phakedi plans to fight the decision. Again. The Food and Allied Workers Union says it will continue its inquiry into the R19-million written off in the union’s investment wing
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14 June 2020
Mail & Guardian
More court action is likely to follow as sitting faction wins the latest round of the infighting plaguing the Food and Allied Workers Union
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05 June 2020
Mail & Guardian
Many womxn who live and work on farms have suffered immensely during the Covid-19 lockdown
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28 May 2020
IOL
The Women’s Legal Centre, with the Women on Farms Project, are calling on government to open labour centres and make mobile labour centres available in rural areas so that women who live and work on farms can claim unemployment benefits during a national lockdown and crisis.
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28 May 2020
Mail & Guardian
Leaders of two competing groupings in the Food and Allied Workers Union have fired each other
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28 May 2020
CNA Lifestyle
An estimated 80 wineries, with almost 350 producers, could go out of business.
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29 May 2020
GroundUp
Union says its inundated as “unscrupulous farmers” terminate workers’ contracts.
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27 May 2020
Daily Maverick
On 25 May, the Minister of Employment and Labour extended the scope of the UIF’s Covid-19 Temporary Employer/Employee Relief Scheme (TERS) to cover workers who are not registered for UIF. This comes on the eve of an urgent Labour Court application set down for hearing on 28 May, brought by the Casual Workers Advice Office, Women on Farms Project and the Izwi Domestic Workers Alliance.
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25 May 2020
Times Live
eCommerce options for liquor outlets including taverns are under discussion by the SA liquor industry as it seeks to prevent overcrowding when the ban on booze is lifted from next Monday.
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15 May 2020
IOL
South Africa's employment and labour department said on Friday it was making every effort to reach domestic workers and farm labourers.
Farm workers read moreMaverick Citizen Friday Activist: Odette Geldenhuys, a lawyer doing heart work that benefits all https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-07-03-odette-geldenhuys-a-lawyer-doing-heart-work-that-benefits-all/
Economists urge MPs to reject Tito Mboweni’s budget https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/national/2020-07-01-economists-urge-mps-to-reject-tito-mbowenis-budget/ via @BusinessLiveSA
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