Government set to revise employment equity targets
The Department of Employment and Labour has announced changes, but the Black Business Council wants it to up its targets.
Government has proposed sweeping changes to employment equity legislation which now allows companies that do not comply to be given the chance to explain.
“The employer will incur no penalties or any form of disadvantage if in the compliance analysis of affirmative action in any workplace there are justifiable/reasonable grounds for not complying with the targets,” the Department of Employment and Labour said.
While the DA said it supported the creation of employment opportunities, the party – which rejected the department’s targets as ‘ANC quotas’ last year staged a protest against the amendments.
The Black Business Council meanwhile called on the government to up the targets, saying there was an urgent need for the transformation of the workplace.
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