CWAO Radio - Buwa Basebetsi
Buwa Basebetsi, is a radio show produced by the CWAO in partnership with Simunye Workers Forum and Simunye Women’s Workers Forum, focusing on all issues related to Workers’ Rights, current affairs, strike action, CCMA and Labour Court cases. Other struggles of the working class will also be reviewed.
The CWAO is making this show available to all community Radio stations free of charge as well as providing expert studio guests from the CWAO team who speak 7 official languages.
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Weekly Updates
Know Your Rights Series
Labour Broker Series
About this Series: Labour Brokers
This is a 4-part podcast series produced by the Casual Workers Advice Office on labour broker workers’ rights.
02 February 2024
Labour Broker Series - Episode 4
In this last episode of the series, we looked at how bosses have tried to get around the law. As well as the difficulty that workers face to become permanent due to the weakness of the law, the anti-worker politics of the CCMA and the problems of the Labour Court. In this episode we focus on the history of workers and the similarities of pre-colonial workers vs workers today. We also take a look at the realities of workers who belong to trade unions who explain the importance of organising in the workplace.
Special thanks go to CWAO Organiser, Connie Masekwameng, for hosting this.
15 January 2024
Labour Broker Series - Episode 3
This is part three of our labour broker workers' rights series. In the previous episodes, we looked at who labour broker workers are, their rights at work, and the problems they face. Special thanks go to CWAO Organiser, Connie Masekwameng, for hosting this
07 December 2023
Labour Broker Series - Episode 2
In this episode, we discuss how bosses have evaded the legal requirement in existence since 2015 to appoint labour broker workers permanently after three months in the company. We will also look at the 2018 Constitutional Court decision which clearly stated that temporary employment services should be genuinely temporary, and that temporary workers placed by labour brokers at a company are automatically deemed permanent after three months of service.
This is a four-part series produced by the Casual Workers Advice Office.
17 November 2023
Labour Broker Series - Episode 1
In our first episode of the Labour Broker Series, we present our focus on Labour Broker Worker Rights. This episode will look at who labour brokers workers are, the problems labour broker workers face, and the rights of labour broker workers, among other things. This episode is presented by Nandi Vanqa-Mgijima.
This is a four-part series produced by the Casual Workers Advice Office.