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BusinessLive reports that frustrated by the slow pace of transformation in the workplace, the government says it will invoke a legislative provision that will make it compulsory for companies to have a compliance certificate to do business with it.
The legislation – section 53 of the Employment Equity Act – has, to date, remained dormant while government waited to see whether employers would comply voluntarily with employment equity objectives. But Employment and Labour Minister Thulas Nxesi said on Tuesday that this has happened at a very slow pace and the government would adopt a tougher approach to companies that continued to stall on employment-equity targets. Another measure contemplated to quicken the equity transformation in the workplace is to set employment equity targets for each economic sector, with the risk of prosecution for the failure to meet the targets for no justifiable reason. Nxesi was reacting to the just-released Commission for Employment Equity (CEE) report for 2018, which showed that the pace of transformation in the workplace was very slow. The construction and financial sectors were found to be the worst performers in terms of employment equity. CEE chair Tabea Kabinde said the commission would engage with the different sectors to set targets for the next five years.
- Read the full original of the above report by Linda Ensor at BusinessLive
- Read too, Government drafting sector targets for workforce transformation, at Engineering News
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