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South Africa's main agriculture and farming union has expressed concern about the bilateral investment treaty agreed with Zimbabwe, which is set to exclude South African owned farms that were expropriated by the Robert Mugabe regime during the chaotic land 'reform' programme.
First Lady of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Hajiya Turai Umaru Yar'Adua has set up a skills acquisition centre at the Maitama General Hospital, Abuja, for the training of special patients in income generating trades by the National Directorate of Employment (NDE).
In a bid to enhance productivity in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), seventy staff of Area Councils Unified Services serving in various departments in FCT have been selected and converted into the health cadre.
Namibia Dairies and the Namibia Farmworkers' Union (NAFWU) have signed a wage agreement through which workers at the Mariental-based SuperFarm will receive 13th cheques coupled with a productivity bonus and flexible working hours.
MASAKA district LC5 chairperson, Vincent Sempijja, has asked residents of the Kasijjagirwa Armoured Brigade to stop employing outsiders on their farms. Sempijja said it was better to employ the wives of soldiers on the farms.
MBALE district leaders expressed shock and concern after the head of the International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) in Uganda revealed that the district had 3,300 child labourers.
STANDARD Bank yesterday announced two major appointments to head its SA and international corporate and investment banking activities, to further its growth strategy. Kennedy Bungane was appointed the unit's SA CE . He takes over from David Munro, who has been appointed the global head of investment banking. Standard Bank operates in 32 countries. Munro will remain in SA.
We have proved over and over again that we are a nation that does not plan for tomorrow. Since 1990, the Nigeria economy has expanded and the population has grown, but it is now clear to all discerning observers that our successive governments have failed to plan for our future.
CIVIL servants have started getting their annual bonuses with the education sector and the uniformed forces receiving their 13th cheques this month while the rest of the civil service will get the extra cash next month.
Fifteen thousand people in Mpumalanga have lost their jobs in Mpumalanga in the last two months alone because of the financial recession, the provincial government has announced.
Air Zimbabwe should reinstate more than 400 workers it retrenched in August, the Labour Court has ruled.
Unemployment, service delivery and poverty are some of the main issues dominating the election campaign as Namibians prepare for presidential and parliamentary elections on 27 and 28 November. A total of 14 political parties have successfully filed their nomination papers to take part in the elections, according to the Electoral Commission of Namibia. These include the ruling South West Africa ...
THE ban on the labour-hire system in Namibia will remain suspended while a Supreme Court decision on the constitutionality of the ban is pending.
The Alkalo of Dasilami in Kombo Central in the Western Region who was sacked has been recently reinstated, speaking to this reporter at her home in Dasilami Aja Jafereh Bojang, confirmed that she was re-instated following her sacking as the village Alkalo (Head) almost 2 years ago. She said the position was entrusted to her prior to her sacking for reasons not known to her. She said that when she ...
The National Co-ordinator of the National Youth Employment Programe (NYEP), Mr. Pele Abuga has announced that next year, the programme would provide employment for 100,000 youth throughout the country. According to him, "this is part of the government's drive to provide more jobs for the Ghanaian youth", to enable them contribute to the socio-economic development of the country.
His taking office was marred by controversy, one of which had to do with calls for increment of the salary of officers of the Liberia National Police. The call was against the backdrop that his predecessor Beatrice Munah Sieh was already in the process of increasing salary when she was changed by President Sirleaf for reasons best known to her (the president).
PARLIAMENT has summoned the internal affairs minister, Kirunda Kivenjinja, to explain why the Anti-Stock Theft Unit (ASTU) officers have not been paid salaries for about two years.
Workers of the National Institute for Policy and strategic Studies (NIPPS) Kuru yesterday began a strike after a peaceful protest over unpaid allowances. The workers carried placards and banners calling for the payment of their monetization arrears and imp-roved conditions of service.
Retrenched Workers Association of Savannah Sugar Company (RWASSC) Limited, Numan in Adamawa State has asked the Bureau for Public Enterprises (BPE) to pay the terminal benefits of its members, who were retrenched by the company since 20th March, 2003.
After condemning the citizens for abandoning the spirit of botho during the veldt fires that ravaged the country last year, government now intends to pay volunteers who help in fighting veldt fires.
Bank of Kigali (BK) has laid-off 55 employees in its ongoing restructuring.
The consequences of the Doha Round of trade talks for larger developing countries in sub-Saharan Africa could include job losses and deindustrialisation if a new study forecasting how Kenya is set to be affected is anything to go by.
POLICE captain Renate Barnard should have been promoted to superintendent in 2006 because she proved her competence in interviews and her score ratings were higher than the other candidates, retired assistant police commissioner Abraham Burger told the Labour Court yesterday.
GOVERNMENT has announced that the multi-facility economic zone (MFEZ) at Lumwana in Solwezi will attract an investment of about US$1.2 billion and create more than 13,000 jobs.
For sometime now, the issue of gratuity in the light of the pension reform has been a contentious one between employees and the employer. Many human resource managers are also not clear about how to handle this.
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