employment Archives - Voice of the Cape

Majority of Western Cape employers not complying with law, inspectors find

LOCAL An investigation by the department of employment and labour has found the majority of employers in the Western Cape are not complying with labour legislation. In a statement on Friday, the department said 55% of employers scrutinised by the department’s inspectors in the province during the 2021/2022 financial year were non-compliant. Hlanganisa Dalasile, the department’s employer audit specialist in the Western Cape, said the compliance level dropped to 43.46% […]

20 November 2022

Local

Sassa to help R350 grant recipients find jobs

LOCAL Social development minister Lindiwe Zulu says the SA Social Security Agency (Sassa) is working on a plan to help those receiving the R350 social relief distress grant (SRD) find work. Zulu revealed this while responding to a written parliamentary question from the EFF. The red berets asked “what measures of intervention will her department take to accommodate the more than 500,000 people that will be excluded from the SRD due to […]

16 August 2022

Local

Ramaphosa promised to create 800,000 jobs in South Africa – here’s how it’s going

The Presidency has released its first progress report on the implementation of the ‘presidential employment stimulus’, which aimed to create or support 800,000 jobs in South Africa within the current financial year. Announced as part of the country’s coronavirus economic recovery plan in October, president Cyril Ramaphosa said that the stimulus is designed to respond to the rise in unemployment caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Ramaphosa said that this is […]

2 December 2020

Local

This sector in South Africa just lost 250,000 jobs – here’s why it’s a big deal

Increasing job losses and the overall negative impact on the economy of the nationwide lockdown has seen South Africa’s ’s expanded unemployment rate accelerate to 42% for the second quarter of 2020. The latest Quarterly Labour Force Survey Quarter 2: 2020 results show that a shocking 2.2 million jobs were shed in the country during this period. One of the groups hid hardest by the lockdown are domestic workers, with […]

10 October 2020

News

Uphill battle for qualified foreigners seeking work

South Africa is home to a number of refugees who have been forced to flee conflict in their countries. There are numerous challenges faced by foreign nationals in South Africa. They are often accused of coming to South Africa and stealing jobs from the locals. Two months ago, it was reported that the ANC wants government to consider imposing quotas of the number of foreign nationals that companies in different […]

22 September 2017

employment

Majority of Western Cape employers not complying with law, inspectors find

Sassa to help R350 grant recipients find jobs

Ramaphosa promised to create 800,000 jobs in South Africa – here’s how it’s going

This sector in South Africa just lost 250,000 jobs – here’s why it’s a big deal

Uphill battle for qualified foreigners seeking work

Download our new app

Download
our new app