Women’s award for Hands on Treatment

South Africa’s Martina Laurie has been named as CEO Africa’s Most Influential Women in Business and Government for her 13 years of work dedicated to the empowerment of urban black women through skills transfer and employment.Laurie is the CEO of Hands On Treatment, a...
SA employment figures down

SA employment figures down

Employment in South Africa has declined slightly over the last year, although earnings increased ahead of inflation. These are among the figures in Statistics SA’s Quarterly Employment Statistics (QES) survey of enterprises in the formal non-agricultural business...

SA needs opportunity matching apps

Improved access to smartphones has put the power of change into the hands of many, and in a labour surplus economy like South Africa’s, where there is an overflow of low skilled and unemployed workers, mobile technology is a key tool for improving communication...
Employment, growth key for SA

Employment, growth key for SA

While the South African economy has come a long way since the recession in 2008, it is still growing at meagre rates. The Department of Labour’s Annual Labour Market Bulletin (ALMB) 2013-2014 Report says the economic growth remains one of the critical channels to...

High-level automation affects employment

Factories, along with process automation, has developed increasingly, with smart machines rapidly changing the industry. Within certain key industry sectors, the development trend is gradually moving away from semi-automated processes towards highly automated...