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A lifetime of care work repaid with erasure

A son reflects on his mother’s 20-year career as a Community Health Worker and the implications of her retiring without a pension or recognition.

5 months ago

The dignity crisis facing Community Health Workers

by Kukhanya Mthimkulu care economy / Care Workers' Day / community health workers / decent work / extended public works programme / gender equality / health sector / Labour Relations Act / workers’ rights

A nation that claims dignity as a founding value cannot continue denying it to the care workers who sustain its capacity to care.

5 months ago

How the state undermined the rights of Community Health Workers

by Nina Benjamin care economy / community health workers / decent work / extended public works programme / gender equality / health sector / Labour Relations Act / recognition of prior learning / workers’ rights

Community Health Workers won permanent employment in court – then the state rewrote the rules. Our analysis tracks how a landmark victory became a new form of exclusion.

5 months ago

Decent work goals for care workers

by LRS care economy / community health workers / decent work / ECD practitioners / extended public works programme / food handlers / gender equality / workers’ rights

Care workers’ five demands for decent work.

5 months ago

Recognition of Prior Learning as a collective journey

by Nina Benjamin care economy / community health workers / decent work / extended public works programme / gender equality / health sector / recognition of prior learning / workers’ rights

10 questions and answers for Community Health Workers advocating for absorption into permanent posts.

6 months ago

7 GBVH clauses unions must demand at the bargaining table

by Nina Benjamin agreements database / collective bargaining agreements / gender based violence and harassment / gender equity / ILO Convention 190 / trade union development / workers’ rights

GBVH is a labour relations and organisational power issue. The fix must be too.

6 months ago

How workers’ voice is shaping AfCFTA processes

by Nelly Nyagah afCFTA / decent work / impact / labour provisions / organisation and representation / social dialogue / trade / trade policy / workers’ rights

Our progress in challenging the marginalisation of trade unions in trade policy development.

6 months ago

Gig economy workers set to get more protection under planned labour law reforms

by The Conversation BCEA / gig economy / Labour Relations Act / labour rights / platform workers / technology / workers’ rights

South Africa is proposing to extend labour and social protections to platform workers.

6 months ago

Absorbed on paper, invisible in practice

by Thapelo Moncho care economy / community health workers / decent work / extended public works programme / gender equality / health sector / recognition of prior learning / workers’ rights

A Community Health Worker reflects on the reality of absorption into permanent employment on the ground.

10 months ago

Our journey for decent work in the National School Nutrition Programme

by Nelly Nyagah care work / decent work / education sector / extended public works programme / food handlers / informalisation / Power Up! / workers’ rights

Food Handlers organise to claim their rights.

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A lifetime of care work repaid with erasure

The dignity crisis facing Community Health Workers

How the state undermined the rights of Community Health Workers

Decent work goals for care workers

Recognition of Prior Learning as a collective journey

7 GBVH clauses unions must demand at the bargaining table

Gig economy workers set to get more protection under planned labour law reforms

Absorbed on paper, invisible in practice

Our journey for decent work in the National School Nutrition Programme

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