Employment Equity

If I can’t use puns then it’s not worth my while.  So I continue. The news was full of the latest EE Commission report.  It was on TV, SAFM and made the print media as well.  I read the report in Business Day this morning (Employment equity hits ‘all-time low’).  I think Jimmy Manyi (Commission […]

The Johannesburg labour court has found that the Employment Equity Act does not impose an obligation on an employer embarking on a retrenchment exercise to retrench its white rather than black employees.   The Business Day ran this article in this morning’s paper (Firms not obliged to retrench white staff). The case revolves around a black

Hopefully those companies that employ more than 150 employees made the 2 Oct deadline.  The Department of Labour is ramping up its inspectorial activities, a "specialised inspectorate has now been established to deal with the matter and some regulations have been amended with the aim of encouraging better and more accurate reporting" (Business Day, 2

Alan Hammond, editor of The Skills Portal wrote an interesting comment in his weekly newsletter today, Labour Department gets tough with Employment Equity Act.  The article sheds more light on the quantitative measures the Department of Labour can use to gauge progress.  Quantitative measures are found in sections 42 and 43 of the EE Act. 

JSE listed companies don’t take to allegations that may impact on their share price lightly.  A number of the companies "named and shamed" on Monday have come back with evidence that they have in fact complied.  This doesn’t bode well for the Labour Department at all.  I do suspect that the DoL were marginally on

The Employment Equity deadline is approaching and the Department of Labour is making a huge noise about the status of EE within some of the bigger companies.  Headlines like "Mdladlana names ‘too-white’ firms – Business Day, 12 September, 06"; and "We have regularly submitted reports – Business Report , 12 September, 06" are making the