Faced with rising unemployment and an economy continually buffeted by unpopular policies and geopolitical instability, the government has turned to the private sector to boost the country’s ability to weather the storm, writes Legalbrief. The Presidency and Business Leadership SA ... Read More

Serious allegations about the conduct of the chair of the Competition Tribunal remain unresolved more than a year after being brought to her attention and escalated to Minister of Trade, Industry & Competition Parks Tau. In several correspondences to Tau ... Read More

Parliament must move beyond reactive measures and lead the charge in building robust governance systems, driving evidence-based policies and leveraging parliamentary diplomacy to address the complex realities of continental migration. This according to parliamentary Portfolio Committee on International Relations & ... Read More

SA’s automotive components sector continues to see closures and job losses as local production struggles to keep pace with cheap imports. And, says a Daily Investor report, the National Association of Automotive Component and Allied Manufacturers (NAACAM) has warned that ... Read More

Sixteen years of commuter data from Statistics South Africa provides a broad picture of how the daily travel patterns of SA’s working population reflect wider shifts in the country’s economic conditions. The Common Sense analyst Reine Opperman writes that in ... Read More

Bus drivers in the UK are to press ahead with a series of strikes after rejecting attempts to resolve a dispute over working in hot weather, complaining their cabs often exceed 40C. BBC News reports that around 1 500 members ... Read More

Airbus has bowed to employee demands on remote working, after a series of strikes over its CEO’s return-to-the office orders. The world’s largest aeroplane maker is said to have watered down plans to restrict remote working to one day a ... Read More

Workers in The Netherlands are adopting artificial intelligence in the workplace faster than many employers. Employees are increasingly turning to AI for their daily tasks, but businesses and organisations have been slower to develop policies or initiatives that actively encourage ... Read More

Trades unions in the UK are warning Prime Minister Andy Burnham that Labour’s policy on cutting zero-hours contracts risks failing to live up to the party’s manifesto. Union leaders are seeking reassurances from the business secretary, Jonathan Reynolds, amid what ... Read More

* Absa has been appointed master custodian to the Government Employees Pension Fund – Africa’s largest pension fund, with more than R3.5trn worth of assets under management. Absa saids this was one of the most significant custody mandates in SA’s ... Read More

* Five Emfuleni Municipality employees have been arrested by the Political Killings Task Team in Gauteng for alleged fraud, theft and tampering with essential infrastructure. The suspects, attached to the municipality’s revenue and electrical departments, allegedly took payments directly into their ... Read More

* Cape Town accounted for nearly half of all jobs created across SA’s eight metropolitan municipalities between the first quarter of 2022 and the second quarter of 2026. The city added 418 000 jobs during the period, representing 49.6% of ... Read More

Labour Appeal Court (Johannesburg) Alfred Nzo Municipality v Samwu obo Mntaka and Others Judgment: 14 August 2026 Keywords: Labour law – Interpretation and application of collective agreement – Whether municipality's implementation of shift allowance clause constitutes administrative action under ... Read More

Labour Appeal Court (Gqeberha) Goodyear SA v NUMSA obo Jacobs and 53 Others Judgment: 20 August 2026 Keywords: Labour law – dismissal – sanction – reasonableness review – insubordination – inconsistency – collective dispute – final written warnings – Sidumo standard – ... Read More

Labour Court (Cape Town) City of Cape Town v Salga and Williams Judgment: 18 August 2026 Keywords: Labour law – Arbitrator misconstruing and misapplying test for admission of hearsay evidence – Arbitrator provisionally admitting hearsay then rejecting it without proper ... Read More