Regulatory compliance and strict labour legislation are the top challenges to business growth, as identified by 369 firms interviewed in the 2026 Business Environment Survey. The Cape Chamber of Commerce and Industry commissioned the Bureau for Economic Research at Stellenbosch University to survey 369 businesses to identify what needs fixing to promote much-needed economic growth. […]
The proposed Employment Services Amendment Bill marks a significant shift in how South Africa regulates the employment of foreign nationals, with employers expected to take a far more active role in ensuring ongoing compliance. This is the feedback from Lee Masuku, Senior Associate in Employment Law Practice at Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr (CDH). In an interview […]
Transformation is Dr Cyril’s miracle cure that if ingested in sufficient quantities was supposed to eliminate all debilitating effects of apartheid. Instead, it is about to finish off the patient. The gazetting last week of the Department of Employment & Labour’s numerical employment targets, which form part of the Employment Equity Amendment Act (EEAA), was […]
Cape Town — The recently appointed Minister of Employment and Labour, Nomakhosazana Meth, has described her department’s mission as a “mammoth task,” emphasising its critical role in driving substantive positive change and hope for South African citizens. Addressing a Ministerial Committee meeting held to welcome new principals and present the department’s programme, Meth laid out a […]
As we approach the 2024 elections, the date of which is expected to be announced this evening during the State of the Nation (Sona) address, there are worrying messages from the business community that ANC politics could severely damage the economy. Banks are warning of an imminent drop in the rand’s value and increased unemployment […]
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 […]
Nxesi promises nuance in Employment Equity 30 June 2023 A “ground-breaking” settlement reached yesterday between Employment & Labour Minister Thulas Nxesi and trade union Solidarity states that “affirmative action shall be applied in a nuanced way… and the economically active population (EAP) statistics will only be one of the many factors that will be taken […]
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, […]
The Black Business Council (BBC) has condemned trade union Solidarity for encouraging white-owned businesses to defy government’s approved policy on black economic empowerment (BEE). On Thursday, Solidarity wrote letters to at least 2 000 major white-owned companies asking the businesses to protest against government’s latest “race laws”. In a letter which we have seen, the […]
- 1
- 2