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BusinessLive reports that the Cabinet said in a statement on Thursday that the "stubbornly slow" pace of transformation in the workplace was "simply not good enough".
This was with reference to the release of the 17th Commission for Employment Equity Report by Labour Minister Mildred Oliphant on Tuesday. "The report demonstrates that we are still far from achieving a workforce that is truly representative of our nation. African people, women and persons with disabilities remain severely under-represented in all aspects of the employment equity," Communications Minister Ayanda Dlodlo said. She went on to say that the Cabinet welcomed the announcement by the Minister of Labour that her department was considering adopting harsher consequences for non-compliance. The small fines currently imposed for non-compliance, Dlodlo said, were simply paid by companies and did not act as a deterrent.
- A short report by Linda Ensor is at BusinessLive
- See too, 'Real teeth' needed to fix stubbornly slow transformation, says Cabinet, at Fin24
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