The Department of Employment and Labour and Trade Union Solidarity have signed a major “settlement agreement” over the country’s employment equity laws that will provide some boundaries and certainty for anxious businesses in South Africa. The agreement stems from a mediation process that started after Solidarity had filed a complaint with the International Labour Organisation […]
Proposed rules would do more than lead to job losses and discourage new hires Sandile July and Nonkosazana Nkosi address only one concern about the effect of the new draft employment equity regulations — that they will lead to job losses because individuals will be fired or retrenched (“Jobs unlikely to be lost when applying employment […]
Note to Editors: A voicenote from the DA Federal Leader John Steenhuisen is attached here. The Democratic Alliance (DA) will this week approach the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria to declare various sections of the Employment Equity Amendment Act (EEAA) unconstitutional and invalid. The draft form of the regulations issued in terms of section 15A last month, […]
Daniel van der Merwe says while transformation remains an imperative, it shouldn’t come at expense of growth and morale South Africa’s employment equity targets: A necessary struggle or misguided interference? 6 June 2023 Never mind all the noise of political or racial interference – South Africa’s Proposed Employment Equity Targets are simply impractical. The year […]
Home Affairs Minister, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, has extended the validity of Zimbabwean Exemption Permits (ZEP) by a further six months. This after Motsoaledi announced in December 2021 that the ZEP would not be renewed. The six-month extension period starts on 30 June and ends on 31 December 2023. According to Motsoaledi, the extension is to allow […]
Almost two thousand senior managers in government at both national and provincial levels are considered to have no qualification for the position they occupy. This is according to the Department of Public Service and Administration (DPSA) with data taken from PERSAL – the central system used for the administration of the public service payroll – […]
Members of public in South Africa have just five days left to comment on the Draft Employment Equity (EE) Regulations 2023 on the proposed setting of sector EE targets. The public was given 30 days to comment on the Draft EE Regulations 2023, which were published in mid-May. In terms of Section 15A of the […]
The deadline for comments on the government’s new Draft Employment Equity Regulations is looming and so far, the feelings within the agricultural sector are pretty divided South Africa’s agricultural sector holds mixed feelings over the government’s new Draft Employment Equity Regulations. As the clock ticks on members of the public to comment on the […]
Pretoria – The Minister of Human Settlements, Mmamoloko Kubayi, who was so upset that she had to spend about an hour trapped in a faulty lift that she fired her deputy director-general, has been ordered by court to reinstate her. The Labour Court in Johannesburg made it clear that the minister’s conduct was unlawful as […]
Solidarity warns minister in comments about illegality of race law 9 June 2023 Solidarity today submitted comprehensive comments against the so-called race law (proposed regulations in terms of the Employment Equity Amendment Act). This followed after these proposed regulations were published by the Minister of Labour and Employment and opened for comments on 12 May. […]