These articles are delightfully frustrating to read. It's behind a paywall but I got the paper yesterday, as shit a read as it is. The headline is very compelling Banks threatened over transformation laws Followed by the sentence that we all want to read – Department of labour set to haul Standard Bank, FNB and […]
Banks and employment equity. They’ll win but they don’t want to fight. Disappointing Read More »
Verbiage courtesy of Anton Katz AJ after he declared the "affirmative action policy for the appointment of provisional trustees to insolvent estates invalid ……. because it was too rigid and used race-and gender-based quotas." This is a very significant judgment because it's probably going to go to the Constitutional Court which will test the rigidity of
“A policy cannot pass constitutional muster on good intentions alone” Read More »
The (Captain Renate) Barnard case was not about whether race-based affirmative action measures are permissible in South Africa. (It has long been settled by our courts that they are – not surprisingly, as section 9(2) of the Bill of Rights explicitly says so.) Neither was the case about the constitutionality or the legal validity of the employment
de Vos on the Barnard case Read More »
Perhaps you have trawled the internet for the updated act and the fines. What you will find is the original act and then another document showing the amendments. Here are the consolidated sections that could attract a fine, you can print it but you can't copy from it. If you like and use it please
Employment Equity Amendment Act and fines (effective 1 Aug 2014) Read More »
"Where are the black entrepreneurs who should be sitting around this table?", the very prominent Sandton CEO asked the room that was full of white entrepreneurial faces. The entrepreneurial faces belong to an entrepreneurial organisation. Of the many members only a handful are black. The banking CEO, as it turns out was asking a rhetorical
The black middle entrepreneurial class, SONA and the deep blue (AN) Sea Read More »
What does a ruling party do when they realise that their definition of black is not working for them? Simple, they use the economically active population (EAP) to create degrees of blackness. Perhaps the gestation of this thinking went along these lines. ANC/government person 1: Soooooooooooooo we’ve got the definition of black in the BEE
Black is black – I want my black back Read More »
Courtesy of the Globe and Mail In Canada, anyone who considers themself neither white nor aboriginal is classified by the government as a visible minority. It is an artificial concept that has become unnecessary and counterproductive. Ultimately, the dividing line is arbitrary. For example, Arabic people from North Africa and the Middle East are counted
Canadian employment equity – their version of black is called visible minority Read More »
Admittedly I did leave it to the last minute. Because of this I did expect the website to have issues. Surprisingly it actually handled quite well. But I had problems with parts of the website, most notably updating the employer details, the drop down menus for the provinces didn't work. They didn't work on a
Online EE report’s deadline was yesterday. What fun Read More »
Nope this is not South Africa. It's Namibia – startlingly similar to our local politicians. As to the merits of the argument, I can't comment on that. However when it comes to South Africa there is more than enough evidence to show that the public school system is so poor that the argument that those
Affirmative action dragging heels, says watchdog Read More »
Taken from Constitutionally Speaking. The good professor opines thus: I would suspect that these provisions, read holistically, might well be interpreted by a court to mean that the duty on employers to strive towards equitable representation of suitably qualified people from designated groups in the workforce requires them to take into account the regional and
The ridiculousness of the Manyi-inspired EAP targetting system (de Vos content) Read More »
