Some businesses in South Africa are coming together to discuss and workshop a way to navigate the country’s new black economic empowerment laws and proposed racial targets for various sectors. Trade union Solidarity – vehemently opposed to the new laws and is exploring legal avenues to challenge them – is spearheading an initiative to draw […]
The new EE regime is absurd and impracticable Envision the SA labour market as a timepiece, a complex blend of gears and springs, each playing a crucial role in maintaining the harmony of the ensemble. To function smoothly there needs to be a seamless integration of disparate elements and the deft touch of an invisible […]
The draft employment equity regulations may well be an ‘incoherent mess’, as described by Prof Pierre de Vos, but their implementation will have serious and far-reaching implications for South Africa. Professor Pierre de Vos, head of the Department of Public Law at UCT, wrote about the new version of the Employment Equity Act (EEA), and […]
South Africa is astonishingly creative at fashioning its own political, social and economic demise. Most similarly sized “emerging” economies facilitate their own respective Götterdämmerungs in far more facile ways. Installing some pliant sycophant in the central bank who promptly debases the currency and creates tearaway inflation is a tried and trusted strategy. Alternatively, a coup d’état by […]
A battle is brewing between the construction industry and the Department of Employment and Labour (DEL) over recently published regulations under the Employment Equity Amendment Act. The regulations, published earlier this month despite a lack of consensus between construction industry associations, contain some controversial provisions. These include: The imposition of employment equity targets on various sectors of […]
They will escalate racial tensions and unemployment, and lead to a flight of skills The recently published draft Employment Equity Amendment Act (EEA) regulations banning the employment of coloured and Indian South Africans in certain economic sectors and provinces are unacceptable (“The ideology that spawns SOE graft also foils literacy”, May 22). The EEA will […]
Minister of Employment and Labour – Thulas Nxesi, briefing the media following the Auditor General’s report on UIF Covid-19 TERs benefit, 2 September 2020Labour and Employment Minister Thulas Nxesi says the government is open to engagements on the amended Employment Equity Act. Nxesi has described the criticisms of the amendment as opportunistic, political and fear-mongering. […]
Throughout the African continent, the population navigate down potholed roads to decaying government and municipal buildings. Not one African government has post-independence planned for the future increase in population and built more schools, more universities, more hospitals, more dams, more roads and more bridges – not even one. Throughout the African continent, the population navigate […]
The minister of employment and labour has sent out suggested regulations to be attached to the amendment to the employment equity legislation. The Employment Equity Amendment Act 4 of 2022 was signed by President Cyril Ramaphosa a few months back. To strictly and viciously enforce the amendments, the minister has populated the legislation with suggested […]
A battle is brewing between the construction industry and the Department of Employment and Labour (DEL) over recently published regulations under the Employment Equity Amendment Act. The regulations, published earlier this month despite a lack of consensus between construction industry associations, contain some controversial provisions. These include: The imposition of employment equity targets on various […]