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Dept of Tourism receives over 9,000 applications for relief fund
Applications for the fund, which awards businesses a grant capped at R50,000, closes on 31 May.
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Ntshavheni: 51% black ownership requirement for funding is fake news
With small, medium and micro-enterprises set to be hardest hit by the national shutdown, there was fury at the suggestion that only companies that are majority black-owned would qualify for government assistance.
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Workers not responsible for cleaning up govt's Eskom mess - Solidarity
The organisation has told Eyewitness News that it is waiting on the scheme, which was earmarked at investing R250 billion into Eskom to be adopted before heading to court to challenge it.
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Solidarity ready to challenge Nedlac plan to have PIC save Eskom
The union has described the plan as irrational and immoral, stating that Eskom was a too high risk to invest in.
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SA Express board seeks legal advice after being placed under business rescue
The court handed down the ruling on Thursday after transport and logistics company Ziegler filed an application last month.
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Solidarity welcomes court ruling placing SA Express under business rescue
The trade union said the ruling was a result of poor management and decision making at SA Express.
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Telkom to begin consultations with unions over job cuts
The telecommunications company, which has over R11 billion worth of debt, announced it would be cutting thousands of jobs due to a weak economic environment and a rapid change in technology.
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Involved parties give SAA’s business rescue move the green light
The meeting at the south Gauteng deputy judge president's chambers follows the confirmation on Wednesday night from the Presidency that SAA was to go into voluntary business rescue.
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SAA to receive R2 billion lifeline
The airline's creditors will also provide an additional R2 billion as it begins the journey to restructuring its business and financial affairs from Thursday.
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Talks begin on what's next for SAA after wage deal
SAA and trade unions, including those that enjoy minority support by workers at the state-owned airline, will meet for the first time since the company announced 944 people could lose their jobs due to the restructuring.
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SAA to announce next step after Solidarity’s application for business rescue
The union confirmed it had served court papers on SAA and Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan, asking the High Court in Johannesburg to give the go-ahead for business rescue.
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FIKILE-NTSIKELELO MOYA: Let's give Solidarity's 'university' its due
It would seem that too many of us assume the hegemony of English as an academic language is as natural as leaves falling on an Autumn day. It is not, write Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya.
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Nzimande cautions Solidarity against calling their institution 'a university'
Minister of Higher Education, Science and Technology Blade Nzimande said the current legal framework didn’t permit private institutions to be called universities.
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Labour Court reserves judgment in Solidarity AA case
The trade union approached the court arguing that some pieces of the act governing affirmative action be declared unconstitutional, in line with the SA Human Rights Commission's findings.
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Affirmative action laws are unconstitutional, Solidarity argues in court
The court on Wednesday heard a case between trade union Solidarity and the Department of Labour relating to affirmative action.
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Solidarity’s Afrikaans university started ‘out of anger’, says Lesufi
Gauteng MEC for Education Panyaza Lesufi spoke to Cape Talk’s Kieno Kammies on Monday about the construction of the Afrikaans private vocational training college.
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Solidarity heads to court in bid to have Employment Equity Act amended
Solidarity says it will approach the Labour Court this week to request that government implement the recommendation of a report by the SAHRC on equality.
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Solidarity wants to have Brian Molefe’s property seized
Brian Molefe had until Friday to pay R700,000to Solidarity for its legal costs in his unlawful early retirement case.
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BLF's no-show forces postponement of hate speech case
Trade union Solidarity took BLF to court after the group made controversial comments following the deaths of pupils at Hoërskool Driehoek in Vanderbijlpark.
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Solidarity vs BLF: Hoërskool Driehoek case postponed
The case between Solidarity and the Black First Land First (BLF) has been postponed to 17 September 2019. Solidarity took the BLF to court for hate speech after racist comments about the Hoërskool Driehoek tragedy.
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Court orders Denel to pay over UIF, taxes deducted from employee salaries
Solidarity said it approached the courts after it emerged that Denel was deducting taxes and UIF contributions from employee salaries but not paying them over to the required bodies.
