This debate is not going to go away in a hurry. Poor Captain Barnard, or should we say, Superintendent Barnard, has become the darling of those who question the odd application of the EE Act within the public sector. I am one of those people. To my mind the intention of the act is completely […]
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Solidarity must be celebrating. They took up captain Renate Barnard's case and have at long last got a result. For those of you who don't know the story it goes something like this Barnard was responsible for investigating priority and ordinary complaints against the SA Police service. In 2005 a superintendent level position was created
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Taken from an FM article on BEE investment houses who end up being benificiaries of deals and their overall performance. The article concludes that BEE deals need to evolve, suggesting perhaps that a move toward entrepreneurship and away from passive hand-out involvement. Recent broad-based empowerment deals from the likes of SAB, Tiger Brands and Adcock
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It is perhaps as well at the outset to make it clear what this case is not about. It is not about the application of the Employment Equity Act in the Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality. M J D Wallis Acting Judge of Appeal – The Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa Damn – this is
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Got this off the Eyewitness News website. It's the last paragraph that interests me “By 2014 we should have achieved our employment equity targets, the Welcome to The Ollie Halsall Archive minimum of two percent according to the Employment Equity Act,” said Motlanthe. Hmm – by that stage everyone else is supposed to have reached
Govt. commits to improving lives of the disabled and a bit on the advisory council Read More »
A recent PPP bid document from the City of Johannesburg had this notice as a condition EMPLOYMENT EQUITY STATUSProposer must include in their Proposers (sic) submission full details of their company/venture with the DoL regarding their compliance with the provisions contained in the EE Act Proposals must include at least the following:Not required to register
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I think most of us would have received that hysterical email from Kulula. Entitled "we can swim" (all in lower case) the airline takes a well timed (and deserved) dig at the "super-efficient" labour department. Only Kulula and Nandos would turn this into something in their favour. If various governmental departments can slander private companies
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OK I said in the last post that there would be no more Jimmy-ing the system. I did notice in the Business Day today that Jabu Moleketi (Deputy Finance Minister) has defended outspoken Public Investment Corporation (PIC) CEO Brian Molefe against claims that he is conducting a racial witch-hunt against corporate SA. And Tim Cohen
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Alexander Forbes appoints a white executive chairman and the process predictably gets labeled racist by Jimmy. That was yesterday’s news. This morning the Business Day reports that Alexander Forbes’ shareholders reject Manyi’s gripe. They can do this because Alex Forbes is a private company and our constitution allows them to operate their business in
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It’s a good idea to take an objective view on current affairs. Jimmy Manyi is certainly deserving of a more balanced view even though what I read in the press seems to be worthy of the occasional dig. Jimmy’s back in the news today. The Sunday Independent is carrying a feature on graduate employment today,
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