The Department of Employment and Labour has recently revised its employment equity targets; including a renewed focus on senior and top management levels and replacing specific targets for African, coloured, Indian and white workers. Back in April 2023, President Cyril Ramaphosa signed the Employment Equity Amendment Act into law, which amended the Employment Equity Act of 1998. […]
For years now, more and more skilled South African professionals have found better work opportunities with international companies – specifically the United Kingdom (UK) – because South Africa is among their first choices for talent scouting. This is according to digital outsourcing and consulting firm Strider Digital, which sheds some light on this noticeable trend. […]
The Minister of Employment and Labour, Thulas Nxesi, has reissued draft regulations for sector-specific targets, granting interested parties a 90-day period to provide feedback on the proposals (reissued regulations focusing on employment equity targets). On Friday, May 12, 2023, the Minister released draft five-year sectoral numerical targets for the identified national economic sectors, providing interested […]
JOHANNESBURG – The Labour Department has released new proposed empowerment equity targets. It comes after heavy criticism of the targets published last year for public comment. There were concerns over the constitutionality of the categorisation of race groups. We get reaction from Cosatu Parliamentary Coordinator Mathew Parks.
Employment and Labour Minister Thulas Nxesi has announced a new National Minimum Wage (NMW) determination which will go up from R25,42 to R27,58 for each ordinary hour worked. In a statement on Saturday, the Department of Employment and Labour said the new NMW will come into effect from 1 March 2024. “The National Minimum Wage […]
A recent case settled by the Labour Court ruled in favour of an employee who was terminated due to reaching the “agreed retirement age” of that company – with a labour expert saying that this serves as an important lesson for employers to abide by their own policies. In 2019, a company (the respondent) took […]
The Minister of Employment and Labour is facing a crisis with his senior management and staff. By now it is well known to the public that both the biggest entities under the Department of Labour, namely the Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) and the Workmen’s Compensation Fund, missed their audit and were unable to give proper […]
Minister of Employment and Labour, T.W. Nxesi invites the media to a briefing on the application to set aside the R5 Billion-rand agreement with Thuja. The Minister will brief the public and the media on the latest processes and actions that he has taken to set the agreement aside Since the outbreak of the story by the media […]
Employment and Labour Minister Thulas Nxesi has been fingered as a person of interest for the Hawks and the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) following an investigation into fresh allegations of corruption involving approximately R3-billion. This after a senior government official who has turned whistleblower drafted an explosive affidavit implicating Thulas Nxesi and his former director-general (DG), Thobile […]
A high-ranking official who has blown the whistle on alleged corruption and also frustrated the approval of payments worth R3-billion in the department of employment and labour is fearing for her life after receiving death threats The official has made allegations of theft, fraud and racketeering against employment and labour Minister Thulas Nxesi in an explosive affidavit […]