Jobs
Pandemic hit on jobs worse than thought: UN
'The current trajectory of labour markets is of a stalled recovery, with major downside risks appearing, and a great divergence between developed and developing...
The Labour and Employment Minister said government would assist them with the Unemployment Insurance Fund.
The projections are attributed to good rainfall in the Western Cape last winter following years of drought.
Highly developed economies cannot falsely claim they became strong without government internventions, writes Yonela Diko.
There's been a spate of violence on trucks where at least 29 of them were targeted in the past week allegedly in protest to the employment of foreign nationals in the sector.
The Presidential Employment Stimulus is unprecedented in its scale and breadth, involving a public investment of R100 billion over the next three years.
Amazon expanded its workforce with 175,000 new positions in March as restrictions on movements shuttered real-world shops and had people staying home to avoid the virus.
The recent staggering unemployment statistics have now pushed government, labour and business to recommit to fast-tracking the implementation of resolutions from last year's jobs summit to create jobs and grow the economy.
Ramaphosa said the ANC can create jobs because when it came into government, only 8 million people were employed, and now 16 million people are working.
Labour Minister Mildred Olifant says the project will create over 10,000 jobs and fund small businesses.
Odile Badenhorst, communications manager at CareerJunction, recommends that candidates take up short courses with online course providers just to get themselves in the job market.
While pay and profit are not irrelevant in employees’ work decisions, there are other motivators.
The DA took to Twitter recently to boast about a staggering figure of job creation, Africa Check looked at the data.
Ian Mann talks about the toxicity of some of workplaces.
Dr Roze Phillips of the University of Stellenbosch Business School says people in all industries are at risk.
The NUM said the company informed the union that the job cuts were due to deteriorating and inadequate infrastructure at the mine.
Career Expert Marty Nemko says people with good communication skills must cold call for jobs.
A deeper analysis of South Africa's joblessness reveals a scarier picture of large sections of the population suffering, especially the country's youth.
Unless more stuff is produced and consumed, people lose their jobs as the same output can be achieved with fewer workers.