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Express SA has gone Mobile!
Express Employment Professionals SA has gone mobile!
They now have a mSite. With the amount of smartphones roaming the streets, a huge percentage of one’s current web traffic is as a result of access via mobile. The question to ask yourself. Do you have a mobi site? or Are your visitors landing on your desktop page which looks squashed on their mobile.
Express Employment Professionals SA has gone for a simple yet informative mSite. Cant wait to hear what Dave Martin will say about this one. But I will share with him the phase two. So don’t show him this post!
The mSite has five pages viz Home, About Us, Candidates, Employers and Contact. The presence of Social Media links on each page is what I love most on this site. The home page has a short intro and links to the Employer and Candidates section respectively. The bottom of each page has links to Feedback, Full Site and Disclaimer.
Tweets from SocialMediaInRecruitment Conference 2012
Mike Taylor of Social Media In Recruitment hosted the Social Media In Recruitment Conference, 19th April 2012 at the Congress Centre in London. The fourth one of its kind.
Below is a random selection of some of the Tweets that came from the event under the hashtag #SMIR
Social Media In Recruitment Conference -19th April 2012, Congress Centre, London
Download The Proposed Amendment Labour Bills 2012
The Department of Labour has now uploaded the LRA and BCEA amendment bills together with the Memorandum of Objects. Click the links below to get yourself a copy
Memorandum of Objects: Labour Relations Act Amendment Bill, 2012
Labour Relations Act Amendment Bill, 2012
Basic Conditions of Employment Act Amendment Bill, 2012
Memorandum of Objects: Basic Conditions of Employment Amendment Bill, 2012
Credit to Jeroen van Oostrom, the digital artist who created this image.
South African Staffing & Recruitment Industry – London is Calling
CIETT World Employment Conference 2012
The theme is Transforming our Global Brand.
REC (Recruitment and Employment Confederation) is hosting the CIETT (The International Confederation of Private Employment Agencies) World Conference. This 3-day event will be held 23 – 25 May 2012 at Landmark London. It will explore market trends and developments, and will also focus on how we deal with the challenges facing our global industry. There will be plenary presentations, along with masterclasses, and much more.
Top reasons to attend:
- The conference programme will provide a balance between the strategic trends of the global staffing industry, whilst offering practical advice
- You will hear from business leaders who are experts in their chosen fields
- Insight, knowledge and thought-provoking viewpoints will be discussed and debated by our high profile speakers during main stage plenary and bespoke breakout sessions
- Network with over 400 recruitment professionals from around the world, and share a wealth of experience and ideas
- Meet suppliers in exhibitions. Discuss your issues, and let them showcase their latest technologies and problem solving solutions.
- WeszMadz highly recommends you attend the CIETT2012 World Conference
So, can you afford to miss this once in a lifetime chance to visit one of the world’s great cities and learn from the world’s leading thinkers and practitioners?
One World, One Industry, One Event[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=087GMV05d-s#!]
Rules intended to protect temps are having the opposite effect
As South Africa is pushing the Labour Bills into Parliament, in UK’s new Agency Worker Regulations, one of the hot issues “same pay and benefits as permanent workers” is resulting in an opposite effect.
Extracts from The Telegraph article
Under the changes, which stem from European law, temps are entitled to the same pay and benefits as permanent workers after just 12 weeks in a job. Previously, they had to wait one year to clock up employment rights. ( SA has proposed 6months. We should be doing one year)
A Government analysis said the new rules would cost firms £1.8bn (over R10bn!) a year to implement, raising fears that cash-strapped businesses would stop hiring temps as it no longer made commercial sense. A typical small business would have to pay an extra £2,493 a year, increasing to £73,188 for larger companies. (Experts in SA have always been saying more people, if not more households will suffer as a result)
The new 12-week rule also damages temps’ flexibility to cover peaks and troughs in demand, experts said.
Scores of employers have revisited how they will use temps following the new rules, and are either recruiting fewer agency staff or urging them to waive their rights under a legal loophole. (This is one of my fears for the SA market)
Tom Hadley, policy director at the REC, said the decline in temp hiring “may in part be linked to employer uncertainty over the agency worker regulations”. (Unfortunately this has already commenced in SA without even the bills finalised)
The number of people placed in short-term jobs fell in March at the fastest rate for two-and-a-half years, research from the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) and KPMG revealed. (The Namibia case comes to mind. SA should bear this in mind)
SOURCE: THE TELEGRAPH
Credit to worradmu for the image
If you are looking for a job, where do you normally go to search?
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Am I Permanent after 6months of working as a temp?
This has been a huge argument among labour experts some saying all temps become permanent after six months. Well today (4 April 2012) the Department of Labour held their first public briefing in Johannesburg and here is what the Labour Chief Director Thembinkosi Mkalipi had to say….
Temporary work would be defined as that lasting no more than six months, said chief director of collective bargaining Thembinkosi Mkalipi. “After six months, I cannot be treated differently from other employees, no matter if I am employed by the broker or the client,” he said. “Let’s give workers what is due to them.” This could be summarised as “same treatment and same pay for the same work”. Exceptions included workers who earned more than R172,000 per year, certain types of seasonal work and contracts to replace staff on sick leave.
SOURCE: iafrica
So there we have it! and I qoute “…no matter if I am employed by the broker or the client”
Amendment of section 198 of Act 66 of 1995 – general provisions regulating temporary employment services
Section 198 continues to apply to all employees. It retains the general provisions that a TES is the employer of persons whom it employs and pays to work for a client, and that a TES and its client are jointly and severally liable for specified contraventions of employment laws.
A number of further general protections are introduced:
- An employee bringing a claim for which a TES and client are jointly and severally liable may institute proceedings against either the TES or the client or both and may enforce any order or award made against the TES or client against either of them.
Cancel your Easter Holiday Plans! Public briefings on Labour bills commences 4 April 2012!
As we all know the amendment bills for the Labour Relations Act (LRA) and the Basic Conditions of Employment Act (BCEA) have been submitted to the Cabinet Committee by The Minister of Labour. Next Up is the Public hearings and it is of interest to note that the public briefings planned by Department of Labour are intended to strictly inform and are not an input gathering session. One way traffic it seems.
“We are going to have briefings in all the provinces. In 2010 after publishing the new bills for amendment, we went on a national public hearings campaign, where we solicited comments from the public and various organisations. So, we feel it is also important, that we should go back and report to public what we propose. We want to educate interested stakeholders what these changes mean. Our duty now is to provide clarification,” DoL Chief Director: Collective Bargaining Thembinkosi Mkalipi (27 March 2012)
The schedule for the public briefings is as follows:
Johannesburg, Orion Devonshire Hotel on 04/04/2012;
Cape Town, Fountains Hotel 05/04/2012;
Polokwane, Meropa Casino 09/04/2012. (Thats Easter Monday! Someone tell the Minister)
(Polokwane changed to 02/05/2012 CHANGES HERE)
Durban, Tropicana Hotel 12/04/2012; (Durban changed to 18/04/2012) (CHANGES HERE)
Port Elizabeth; Eastern Cape Training Centre 17/04/2012;
Bloemfontein, President Hotel 23/04/2012;
Kimberley, ICC Kimberley 24/04/2012;
Rustenburg, Hunters Rest 25/04/2012; (Rustenburg changed to 20 April 2012) (CHANGES HERE)
Witbank Protea Hotel 26/04/2012;
NB All public briefings will be held from 10:00 to 13:00
Qoutable Quotes: Labour Broking Saga March 2012
1. Minister in the Presidency Collins Chabane March 8 2012
“Cabinet wishes to reiterate its conviction that abusive labour practices should be prohibited. The matter of labour brokers is being discussed at Nedlac by all the social partners.
“Cabinet calls on all social partners to prioritise the finalisation of this matter at Nedlac.”
2. President Jacob Zuma
“The ruling party’s 2009 manifesto was jointly adopted and launched by the alliance – the ANC, Cosatu and the SA Communist Party,”
3. ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe
“This ANC 2009 election manifesto was signed by all alliance partners, including Cosatu.”
4. Strike participant Edward Stalwart
If labour brokers were banned, “the companies that make use of the labour brokers will simply get guys off the streets to do the job”, said strike participant Edward Stalwart.
“Nothing will be accomplished by getting rid of labour brokers, it will only make the situation worse.”
Stalwart said rather than call a march, Cosatu should have upped their efforts to negotiate with government and business.
“We have been marching for all these years and we never got answers. Why would the government and businesses listen to this time around? This is time wasting,” said Stalwart.
5. Labour Brokers: Cosatu Snubbed (The New Age)
“The government will transform laws to regulate labour broking because banning it will send thousands of people to the jobless queue,” said the source. “I shudder to think what the trade unions will do because the government’s refusal to ban labour broking will obviously disappoint them.”
6. ‘Don’t panic over labour brokers’ LABOUR Minister Mildred Oliphant
LABOUR Minister Mildred Oliphant yesterday said there was no reason to panic about labour brokers as discussions and negotiations at Nedlac were ongoing.
7. Black Business Council (BBC) welcomes Labour broking regulation
“We also welcome the news that there is a drive to regulate, rather than ban labour broking in South Africa.
“We maintain that flexible employment solutions should be counted among real solutions to the scourge of unemployment, especially among the youth.”
8. ‘Labour brokers add value’
The Black Business Council on Wednesday said labour broking does add value to the economy but that any abusive practices in the industry must be stamped out.
9. Mechanism of flexibility – Neren Rau
“We are removing a mechanism of flexibility and a mechanism of job creation from the environment due to a small level of lack of compliance and not really appreciating the huge benefits that labour broking offers to our economy and businesses and prospective employees.” Neren Rau, CEO of the South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry
