Topic: Labour | GroundUp

Urban pig co-operative needs land to stay in business

“I started with few pigs and now they are plenty”

By Joseph Chirume

News | 12 September 2017

Women farm workers protest labour law violations

Survey finds many earn below minimum wage

By Laura Bratton

News | 4 September 2017

Photo of protesters marching in the Eastern Cape.

Sundays River business owners demand more state contracts

Hundreds march upon municipal offices

By Joseph Chirume

News | 18 August 2017

Mine workers remember the Marikana massacre

Five years later conditions in nearby Nkaneng township remain largely unchanged

By Ihsaan Haffejee

News | 17 August 2017

Activists demand justice for Marikana massacre victims

Right2Know march in Cape Town

By Tariro Washinyira

News | 16 August 2017

Mxolisi Zondo earns R1,500 a month herding cattle in urban Gauteng. Photo: Kimberly Mutandiro

Herding cattle in urban Gauteng for R1,500 a month

Motorists taunt 23-year-old herdsman

By Kimberly Mutandiro

Feature | 15 August 2017

Domestic worker alleges she was beaten and stripped by her employers

Employers claim she stole money

By Zoe Postman

News | 14 August 2017

End in sight for silicosis case?

Anglo American and Gold Fields may settle with miners and their families

By Pete Lewis

Analysis | 11 August 2017

Companies using labour brokers to evade workers’ rights

Labour Relations Act unlawfully circumvented by middlemen despite judgment

By Safura Abdool Karim

Law | 29 July 2017

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

By Vincent Lali

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

By Tariro Washinyira

News | 21 July 2017

10111 agents down phones

Call centre employees strike over poor working conditions and low salaries

By Vincent Lali

News | 19 July 2017

Asylum seekers entitled to UIF

Court orders Department of Labour to pay out

By Safura Abdool Karim

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

By Safura Abdool Karim

Law | 17 July 2017

Robertson’s dumping ground for farm workers

Councillor threatens GroundUp after we ask questions

By Thembela Ntongana and Ashleigh Furlong

Feature | 10 July 2017

Workers fear job losses after forestry burns

200 people evacuated from Longmore Sawmill

By Joseph Chirume

News | 9 June 2017