CWAO IN THE NEWS
Latest CWAO News
CWAO Radio
19 April 2024
Weekly Update: a look at the upcoming CCMA campaign and our food basket index
Want to know what The Casual Workers Advice Office has been up to? Then listen to Buwa Basebetsi Updates.
Category: WEEKLY UPDATE
CWAO Radio
17 April 2024
Know Your Rights Series - Episode 11: Notice
This is part eleven of an 11-part series produced by the Casual Workers Advice Office on Workers Rights
Category: WORKERS RIGHTS
CWAO Radio
10 April 2024
Know Your Rights Series - Episode 10: Family Responsibility Leave
This is part ten of an 11-part series produced by the Casual Workers Advice Office on Workers Rights
Category: WORKERS RIGHTS
CWAO Radio
05 April 2024
Weekly Update: an update on Zanthe Fresh workers and our weekly Household Index
Want to know what The Casual Workers Advice Office has been up to? Then listen to Buwa Basebetsi Updates.
Category: WEEKLY UPDATE
CWAO Radio
03 April 2024
Know Your Rights Series - Episode 9: Parental & Adoption Leave
This is part nine of an 11-part series produced by the Casual Workers Advice Office on Workers Rights
Category: WORKERS RIGHTS
CWAO Radio
27 March 2024
Know Your Rights Series - Episode 8: Sectoral Determinations
This is part eight of an 11-part series produced by the Casual Workers Advice Office on Workers Rights
Category: WORKERS RIGHTS
CWAO Radio
20 March 2024
Know Your Rights Series - Episode 7: Paid Sick Leave
This is part seven of an 11-part series produced by the Casual Workers Advice Office on Workers Rights
Category: WORKERS RIGHTS
CWAO Radio
13 March 2024
Know Your Rights Series - Episode 6: Maternity Leave
This is part six of an 11-part series produced by the Casual Workers Advice Office on Workers Rights
Category: WORKERS RIGHTS
Media Coverage
08 March 2024
The SWWF Celebrates International Women's Day
This year we mark International Women's Day in the context of a genocide being carried out against Palestinia women in the Gaza Strip by Israel.
Category: WORKERS RIGHTS
Press Release
08 March 2024
Organise for a Living Wage: R27.58 per Hour Keeps the Bosses Rich
The new national minimum wage is R27.58 per hour! Demand the new national minimum wage if you are earning less!
Category: WOKERS RIGHTS
CWAO Radio
06 March 2024
Know Your Rights Series - Episode 5: Annual Leave
This is part five of an 11-part series produced by the Casual Workers Advice Office on Workers Rights
Category: WORKERS RIGHTS
CWAO Radio
01 March 2024
Weekly Update: We look back at the Simba strike of Oct 2023
Want to know what The Casual Workers Advice Office has been up to? Then listen to Buwa Basebetsi Updates.
Category: WEEKLY UPDATE
Press Release
29 February 2024
The national minimum wage entrenches Apartheid's cheap Black labour
The 1 March increase in the national minimum wage from R25.42 to R27.45 has been hailed in many quarters, most particularly by Cosatu. This alone should make us suspicious, given the federation's consistently anti-worker politics.
Category: WORKERS RIGHTS
CWAO Radio
28 February 2024
Know Your Rights Series - Episode 4: Short Hours
This is part four of an 11-part series produced by the Casual Workers Advice Office on Workers Rights
Category: WORKERS RIGHTS
CWAO Radio
23 February 2024
Know Your Rights Series - Episode 3: Overtime
This is part three of an 11-part series produced by the Casual Workers Advice Office on Workers Rights
Category: WORKERS RIGHTS
CWAO Radio
22 February 2024
Weekly Update: Zanthe Fresh & CWAO Outreach Projects
Want to know what The Casual Workers Advice Office has been up to? Then listen to Buwa Basebetsi Updates.
Category: WEEKLY UPDATE
CWAO Radio
21 February 2024
Know Your Rights Series - Episode 2: Ordinary Hours
This is part two of an 11-part series produced by the Casual Workers Advice Office on Workers Rights
Category: WORKERS RIGHTS
CWAO Radio
19 February 2024
Know Your Rights Series - Episode 1: Wages & Deductions
This is part one of an 11-part series produced by the Casual Workers Advice Office on Workers Rights
Category: WORKERS RIGHTS
CWAO Radio
02 February 2024
Labour Broker Series - Episode 4
This is part four of a four-part series produced by the Casual Workers Advice Office on labour broker workers rights.
Category: LABOUR BROKERS
Media Coverage
19 January 2024
Labour broking alive and well while the CCMA bumbles
Labour-hiring firms still use exploitive labour broking - and the bargaining councils, CCMA and labour court are complicit in this
Category: LABOUR BROKERS
Media Coverage
19 January 2024
Workers take newly merged Heineken-Distell to the CCMA
Unions say merger conditions set by Competition Tribunal have not been met
Category: DISPUTES
CWAO Radio
15 January 2024
Labour Broker Series - Episode 3
This is part three of a four-part series produced by the Casual Workers Advice Office on labour broker workers rights.
Category: LABOUR BROKERS
CWAO Radio
07 December 2023
Labour Broker Series - Episode 2
This is part two of a four-part series produced by the Casual Workers Advice Office on labour broker workers rights. In the previous episode we looked at who labour broker workers are, their rights at work and the problems they face.
Category: LABOUR BROKERS
Resource
29 November 2023
International Day of Solidarity with Palestine march
CWAO and Simunye Workers Forum - SWF marched in Joburg on the International Day of Solidarity with Palestine on 29 November 2023
Category: DISPUTES
Press Release
23 November 2023
Simunye Workers Forum defeats snack giant Simba in the Labour Court!
The SWF won a victory against snack manufacturing giant Simba in the Johannesburg Labour Court on 21 November, with Simba forced to withdraw its bid for a permanent interdict against deemed permanent workers together with permanent workers who went on strike over Simba cancelling the free transport it used to provide.