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Janitors struggle to cope with Wallacedene’s filthy toilets

City promises immunisation shots for workers and that all necessary equipment and chemicals will be delivered

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News | 24 July 2017

City-hired security company suspends 250 employees

Workers claim they are placed where there is no clean water, toilets or electricity

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News | 21 July 2017

10111 agents down phones

Call centre employees strike over poor working conditions and low salaries

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News | 19 July 2017

Asylum seekers entitled to UIF

Court orders Department of Labour to pay out

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Law | 18 July 2017

Court victory for workers hired via labour brokers

Client company is considered employer if worker has been at company more than three months

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Law | 17 July 2017

Robertson’s dumping ground for farm workers

Councillor threatens GroundUp after we ask questions

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Feature | 10 July 2017

Workers fear job losses after forestry burns

200 people evacuated from Longmore Sawmill

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News | 9 June 2017

Agents threaten to close down police call centre

Call centre agents say salary increase was agreed to in 2013

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Brief | 7 June 2017

Cape Town parking marshals made to work through storm

“We are staying in shacks. We don’t know what is going to happen at home”

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Brief | 7 June 2017

Hundreds of outsourced workers on strike at Coega export company

Outsource company disputes union’s right

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Brief | 6 June 2017

Farm labourers dumped in remote town after wage dispute

“It is unfortunate that in this age people are still being treated like animals.”

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News | 23 May 2017

UCT warns against unlawful work stoppages

University responds to protesting catering workers

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Brief | 10 May 2017

No compromise between UWC security company and 144 dismissed workers

Guards have been out of work for four months

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Brief | 5 May 2017

National strike at food export board

Workers demand 8.5% increase

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News | 3 May 2017

Sea Point company fails to pay provident fund despite salary deductions

“That money was going to help me because I have a family in the Eastern Cape depending on me.”

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News | 3 May 2017

Meet the people who collect our garbage

Some residents frantically run out in satin nighties determined to stop the truck so they can empty their bin for the week

Text by Ashleigh Furlong. Photos by Masixole Feni.

Photo Essay | 25 April 2017