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Weekend Argus reports that the Department of Labour (DOL) has vowed to take legal action against businesses dragging their heels to transform the workplace.
This came after it emerged that 77% of all top management posts in the Western Cape were occupied by whites. White men make up 63.2% of that 77%, which equates to 48.7% of the total. The DOL’s Candice van Reenen said companies failing to implement employment equity would be taken to task. Progressive Professionals Forum president Jimmy Manyi commented that the large number of white people in top management was an insult to democratic SA’s first president Nelson Mandela and that corporate SA was “spitting on Madiba’s face.” The Federation of Unions of SA (Fedusa) and Cosatu are sceptical the government will really act.
- Read this report by Siyabonga Sesant in full at Weekend Argus
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