Dear employer NEASA and Sakeliga will appeal directly to the Constitutional Court to set aside a deeply flawed judgment by the Pretoria High Court yesterday after the court refused our application for an interdict against the new employment equity quotas.   In light of this judgment, NEASA and Sakeliga will pursue further countermeasures. We will […]

The opening of the 2025 Employment Equity (EE) Reports starts soon, with the Department of Labour warning employers to have their documentation ready. The submission of EE Reports for the 2025 EE reporting period begins on Monday, 1 September 2025. The Employment Equity Amendment Act of 2022 became operational from 1 January 2025. The new […]

Fana Nalana SC on Tuesday told the Pretoria high court it was not unconstitutional for the minister of employment and labour to set numerical redress targets for companies. Appearing for Minister Nomakhosazana Meth, Nalana sought to counter an argument from counsel for the Democratic Alliance (DA) that section 15A of the recently gazetted Employment Equity Amendment Act amounted […]

After Helen Zille called the law ‘totalitarian’ and damaging to minorities in provinces like KZN and the Western Cape, the ANC hit back, reigniting a fundamental dispute over how transformation should occur in South Africa. The DA takes Labour Minister Nomakhosazana Meth to the Gauteng Division of the High Court on Tuesday, 6 May to […]

The judgement in the Democratic Alliance’s application against Section 15a of the Employment Equity Act has been reserved by the High Court in Pretoria. Section 15a of the Employment Equity Act will give the Minister of Labour and Employment powers to set targets in particular employment sectors. The DA has described the new amended Act as unconstitutional […]

The DA’s case against Labour Minister Nomakhosazana Meth and the Employment Equity Amendment Act is under way in the Gauteng Division of the High Court, with the DA opening the door for the entire bill to be declared invalid. “Leave good enough alone.” This was the Democratic Alliance’s (DA) argument in the Gauteng Division of […]

Department of Employment and Labour officials in the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria today (6 April 2025) in attendance for the Court case brought about by the Democratic Alliance (DA) to challenge to Section 15A of the Employment Equity (EE) Amendment Act. The party argues that the EE Amendment Act introduces rigid national race […]