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Harambee was founded in 2011 by Nicola Galombik, who is also the Executive Director at Yellowwoods, a global investment group based in South Africa. The name "Harambee" is Swahili for "we all pull together". [13] The organization was incubated by Yellowwoods in partnership with the South African Government's National Treasury's Jobs Fund. [14]
The Department of Employment and Labour is the department of the South African government responsible for matters related to employment, including industrial relations, job creation, unemployment insurance and occupational health and safety. Through a range of initiatives developed in collaboration with social partners, the Department of ...
Contingent work, casual work, gig work or contract work, is an employment relationship with limited job security, payment on a piece work basis, typically part-time (typically with variable hours) that is considered non-permanent. Although there is less job security, freelancers often report incomes higher than their former traditional jobs.
Gig economy-based temporary work is prevalent around the world. Uber, for example, operates in North, Central, and South America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, East, South, Southeast Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. [15] Airbnb advertises listings in 191 countries around the world with the most in Europe. [16]
Casual employment contracts lack sick leave and guaranteed work hours. In Jinkinson v Oceana Gold (NZ) Ltd , the Employment Court of New Zealand ruled that: The distinction between casual employment and ongoing employment lies in the extent to which the parties have mutual employment related obligations between periods of work.
Workforce casualisation is the process in which employment shifts [1] from a preponderance of full-time and permanent positions to casual and contract positions. In Australia , 35% of all workers are casual or contract employees who are not paid for sick leave or annual leave . [ 2 ]
In politics, a casual vacancy (casual in the sense of "by chance") is a situation in which a seat in a deliberative assembly becomes vacant during that assembly's term. Casual vacancies may arise through the death , resignation or disqualification of the sitting member, or for other reasons.
The common law of South Africa, "an amalgam of principles drawn from Roman, Roman-Dutch, English and other jurisdictions, which were accepted and applied by the courts in colonial times and during the period that followed British rule after Union in 1910," [76] plays virtually no role in collective labour law. Initially, in fact, employment law ...