A talk on "Deontology and Ethics in Juridical Labour Relations" is to open the 15th national week on general inspection of labour, on Monday in Lubango, Angola's southern Huila province, Angop learned.

Minister of labour, Dr. Hassan Mohammed Lawal has cautioned the management of banks in the country against casualisation of workers, as the ministry will no longer tolerate any organisation that does not abide with the labour standards in the sector.

The strike at Skorpion Zinc Mine might end today as the union says it is ready to sign a compromise agreement with the mine management, although with some uneasiness.

A directive that part of civil servants' salaries be deducted to meet the cost of resettling internal refugees has been withdrawn.

Employers and labour officials have inched closer to agreeing on the implementation of five new labour laws, giving fresh impetus to a process that has been stuck in controversy.

A STRIKE at the Skorpion Zinc Mine in the South is set to continue into the second week after the union rejected a compromise offer from the company.

THE owners of the strike-hit Skorpion Zinc Mine near Rosh Pinah turned to the High Court on Friday in an effort to stop striking workers from interfering with the continuing activities of the mine.

Mr Osei Wiafe-Akenten, Juaso District Manager of the Cocoa Swollen Shoot Virus Disease Control Unit (CSSVD), of the Ghana Cocoa Board has warned that, it is illegal and morally unacceptable to engage children as labourers, especially in the re-planting of

For self-sponsored students pursuing degree courses in public and private universities, financing their education is never an easy affair.

UGANDA has 6,118 guards working abroad.

THE Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality will have to stop deducting money from the salaries of close to 8000 of its municipal employees after unions won an interim interdict in the Labour Court last week.

THE chief financial officer of a government body tasked with taking telecommunication services to the poor has been suspended for alleged financial mismanagement.

The National Brotherhood of Teamster Union of Liberia (NBT-Liberia) is calling on the Government of Liberia to rethink its decision by allowing the Haddad Group of Companies to once again commence the importation of rice.

AN AGREEMENT between the Southern African Institute for Business Accountants (Saiba) and the Institute of Management Accountants of America, the world's leading accounting professional body, is expected to rebalance the accounting profession in southern Africa.

The Federation of Kenya Employers Saturday urged the government to delay the implementation of new labour laws until concerns raised over them are addressed.

Professionals in East and Central African countries could soon be able to access social security and pension benefits with ease despite change of residence within the two regions.

UGANDA has 6,118 guards working abroad. They send home $60m (about sh110b) per year, according to labour state minister Mwesigwa Rukutana.

This is very shocking. I am wondering whether we still need the current 300+ weak parliament, and more particularly, the Minister of State for Labour.

Calm is starting to be eroded again in the struggling education sector under the double pressure of massive expansion of school facilities and lack of equipment, which are both unavoidable, and a totally unnecessary pressure, that of being placed under

The government has launched a taskforce to tackle the shortage of black and ethnic minority women councillors.