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  PAYMENT ON SUNDAYS,NIGHTSHIFT AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS! BCEA  #salaries #wage #publicholiday #labourlaw #employmentlaw  1. Payment for Working on Sundays   (a) Standard Rule : An employer must pay an employee who works on a Sunday at double the employee's normal wage.   (b) For Less Than a Day : For each hour worked on a Sunday, the employer must pay the employee double the hourly wage.   (c) Intermittent Work : Id an employee works on Sunday on an "intermittent" or temporary basis, the payment rule is applied per hour. 2. Night Work The Act defines " night work" as work performed between 18h00 and 06h00 .     (a) Compensation an Safety : An employee can only perform night work if they are compensated by a night work allowance.    (b) Transportation : The employer must ensure that transportation is available between the employee's residence and workplace.    (c) Health and Medical Examination : The employer...

  BASIC CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT ACT ! MEAL INTERVALS AND REST Periods ! #employmentlaw #labourlaw #basic conditions of employment act 1. Meal Intervals (Breaks)   (a) An employer must grant an employee a meal interval if the employee works for more than 5 hours   (b) An employee can only be permitted to work during a meal interval if it is required by an agreement in writing.   (c) If an employee works during a meal interval, the employer must compensate them for that time.   (d) A meal interval can be reduced to 60 minutes by agreement for " session work ". 2.  Daily and Weekly Rest Periods The Act mandates specific rest periods to ensure employees have adequate time off:    (a) Daily Rest Period : An employee must have rest period of 12 consecutive hours between ending work on one day and starting work on the next.       . This daily rest period may be reduced by a written agreement to 10 hours if the...

  WHAT IS A TWO POT RETIREMENT SYSTEM?#how to file a Grievance, #employee rights during a strike #twopotretiremen  The Two Pot retirement system is a significant reform aimed at helping South Africans access a portion of their retirement savings before retirement  without needing to resign  from their job. The system is designed to provide relief for individuals facing financial distress while still ensuring retirement preservation. The reform divides a member's retirement  fund into three components: 1.The Two New Pots (Applies to New Contributions)  Starting from the implementation date, new contributions will be split into two "pots". (a) Contribution Split : If a member contributes 10% of their salary, 3,33% goes to the Savings Pot, and 6.67% goes to the Retirement Pot. (b)) Fund Types: The system applies to Defined Benefit Funds , Defined Contribution Funds , Provident Funds , and Preservation Funds . 2. The Vested ...

  DID DAVID MABUZA BETRAY THE RADICAL ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION STRUGGLE? INRTRODUCTION The former State Deputy President David Dabede Mabuza passed away on Thursday the 3rd of July 2025. This is after a short illness we've been told. As with any passing of a public figure , especially a political leader who was at some stage the African National Congress(ANC) provincial chairperson and Premier in the province of Mpumalanga. He later on ascended to the position of the ANC Deputy President and to that of the country's Deputy President in the year 2018 until his resignation in the year 2023. There is already a heated debate or discussions in the country regarding David Mabuza's legacy as a public figure and leader of both the political party(ANC) and government. Indeed his appears to be a contested legacy, as it is to be expected. I wish to put it upfront that this piece is not aimed at "talking ill of the dead" who cannot be able to defend the...

  SHOULD PRESIDENT CYRIL RAMAPHOSA FIRE MINISTER NKABANE?  The Minister of Higher Education Dr Nobuhle Nkabane has been on the news lately for all the wrong reasons. She appeared in the Parliamentary Committee for Higher Education just above a month ago, it is in this committee where she was taken to task about her decision to appoint a number of individuals into the boards of SETAs. These individuals were not being appointed as ordinary members of the boards but they were being appointed as Chairpersons to these SETA boards. Now , someone who may be hearing or reading about this for the first time may want to ask a question "what is wrong  with these individuals being appointed as Chairpersons to the SETA boards?", well these individuals are cadres of the co-governing African National Congress(ANC) and their appointment would have signaled the highest form of blurring of the lines between Party and State. Who are these "individuals"?. One of...

<meta name="google-adsense-account" content="ca-pub-6632135369274185">  WAS PRAVIN GORDAN A HERO?<script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6632135369274185"      crossorigin="anonymous"></script> The former Minister of Public Enterprises Pravin Gordan died on the 13th of September 2024.  Pravin Gordan previously served as the South African Revenue Services commissioner , was later on appointed as the Minister of Finance by the former president Jacob Zuma in 2009, he served in that capacity until 2014. After the 2014 National and Provincial Elections President Jacob Zuma appointed Pravin Gordan as the minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs(Cogta), he was to return to the finance department in late 2015 after the former president dismissed the then finance minister Nhlanhla Nene and replaced him with Das van Rooyen which triggered a negative reac...

   https://the-agenda.kit.com/4802d64376 WHY THE DECISION BY THE MK PARTY TO NOT CONVENE ELECTIVE CONFERENCE IS A BRILLIANT MOVE?https://amzn.to/48EAV5S https://amzn.to/https://amzn.to/4fBNVvj  The UMkhonto WeSizwe Party has announced that it will not convene any elective conference until after the 2029 National and Provincial Elections. The announcement was made at a press briefing in August where the Party was announcing its National leadership known as the High Command, this is a structure which is made of the President, Deputy President,National Chairperson, Deputy National Chairperson, Secretary General, Deputy General Secretary, National Organizer, Treasure General and additional members. The Party has been on the drive to identify and recruit the brains and skills it believes will assist in building the Party. This according the Party is an on-going exercise of identifying and recruiting the best talents into the fold of the UMkhonto WeSizwe Party. The rea...