Health and Safety Bulletin Archive March 2009

Labour brokers are human traffickers

On Sunday I went with my fiancé to The Star’s Workplace Expo at the Dome in Northgate, Johannesburg. While we wandered around, I noticed a stall advertising work in heavy industry and remembered seeing an article last week Friday, in the Cape Times, around the possible banning of all labour brokers. Our Labour Minister, Membathisi Mdladlana, addressed the national bargaining conference of the Chemical, Energy, Paper, Printing, Wood and Allied Workers Union in Pretoria on Thursday 19 March. He says labour brokers are nothing more than “human traffickers”.

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6 ways you’re making your employees sick

It’s amazing how often your place of business is to blame for spreading viruses and bacteria. The Star ran a very interesting piece last week Thursday entitled “Is your office making you sick?” The Finnish Institute of Occupational Health ran a study which gives the red light to six areas of your job, and office, that are literally making you and your employees sick...

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