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| |  | MAJA SMITH In every crisis, there is opportunity: for introspection, reinvention, and ultimately evolution - for doing better than we did before. The strength of female leadership during this time has been undeniable... Read |  | The animated videos provide essential workers in manufacturing, retail and supply chain industries with information on Covid-19... Read |
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| HR & Recruitment |
 | Statistician General, Risenga Maluleke, has announced that Statistics South Africa will conduct data collection for key labour statistics using telephone interviews... Read |
 | The Department of Employment and Labour has closed its labour centre in Bellville, Cape Town, after an employee tested positive for Covid-19... Read |
| 4th Industrial Revolution |
 | VUKANI MNGXATI Experts don't know how long it will take to contain the coronavirus so businesses are challenged with not only preparing for the short-term, but also developing new capabilities and ways of working... Read |
| Employee Wellness |
 | NICCI BOTHA While people can handle change, uncertainty can seriously drive up stress and anxiety levels, especially around the world of work... Read |
 | STEFANO MIGLIORE Covid-19 is wreaking havoc amongst us, not because it's causing global physical and economic meltdown, but for exacerbating another pandemic we've been dealing with for decades: loneliness... Read |
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 | JUANITA VAN DER MERWE As part of the second phase economic response to the Covid-19 pandemic, National Treasury has published another draft bill to formalise the tax relief measures available to small businesses. The draft legislation aims to clarify several matters which were previously the subject of uncertainty and introduces additional tax measures... Read |
 | The Employment and Labour Department has referred the public wishing to collect their R350 social grant to the Social Development Department... Read |
 | NANCY COULSON & NICOLA CHRISTOFIDES South Africa was put under strict social and economic lockdown on 26 March. By the end of April the government announced that it was easing some of the restrictions. This included allowing certain key sectors to begin operations once again. One of them was mining... Read |
 | The Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) has disbursed almost R9.5 billion through the Covid-19 Temporary Employer/Employee Relief Scheme (TERS). Read |
| Management |
 | As the government considers how soon to lift the lockdown, the prospect of more South Africans returning to work is both a welcome and worrying prospect... Read |
 | ALLON RAIZ In my previous article, Embrace your X, I discussed the importance for the leadership of entrepreneurial businesses to make comprehensive contingency plans... Read |
 | MARKUS GSCHWARI Responsible leadership has taken on an even deeper meaning, as our workforces and our customers find themselves in an unfamiliar, fast-moving global environment... Read |
 | The Covid-19 pandemic is a reminder to maintain a clean and safe workspace environment... Read |
| Youth Employment |
 | THERESA ACKERMAN Despite the increasing rate of unemployment in South Africa, businesses can play a meaningful role in creating sustainable job opportunities for the youth, those that are most affected. The opportunity lies where Temporary Employment Services (TES) can facilitate the sharing of skills... Read |
 | The Social Development Department is boosting its capacity to assist families and communities affected by Covid-19 with the recruitment of 1,809 social workers... Read |
 | SINDY PETERS Lisa Ilingworth, CEO and co-founder of Futureproof SA, shares her experience of the current Covid-19 crisis and how her organisation is navigating these unusual times... Read |
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 | The global digital evolution has just been put into overdrive by Covid-19 as locked-down nations are forced to accelerate the shift online, driving a massive spike in data needs... Read |
 | SHAHEEN MEHTAR, LUCILLE BLUMBERG, MARC MENDELSON Many countries, including South Africa and Nigeria in Africa, are moving to make it mandatory to wear non-medical cloth masks when people are outside their homes... Read |
 | KATHERINE E GALLAGHER, ANTHONY SCOTT, IFEDAYO ADETIFA, JOHN OJAL, SHIRINE VOLLER & WANGECI KAGUCIA World Immunisation Week is celebrated in the last week of April every year. The aim is to recognise efforts to develop new vaccines and increase vaccination coverage worldwide... Read |
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 | At the beginning of March few anticipated the significant impact the Covid-19 pandemic would have on the lives of all South Africans... Read |
 | Female entrepreneurs are being called to join the Top Tech Tools for Women in Business programme for 2020... Read |
 | EVAN-LEE COURIE Charmaine Lambert, manager at WorkInProgress, an Absa innovation lab, believes that the next six months will be a challenging time for the majority of the startup community... Read |
 | EVAN-LEE COURIE Gareth Price and Chris Bruchhausen shares how the coronavirus has had an impact on Investmint, an online platform connecting businesses in need of a loan... Read |
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