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Bloomberg News reports that SA has sued Huawei Technologies for exceeding the number of foreigners it is allowed to employ in the country, as the government ramps up its rhetoric against immigrants filling local jobs.
The Chinese telecommunications giant has about 90% foreign nationals at its SA unit, including all five top management officials, the Department of Employment and Labour (SEL) said in a statement on Friday. That exceeded the maximum quota of 40%, according to the state. The DEL has filed court papers in Johannesburg, according to advocate Fix Bede, who is representing the government. It wants the judge to order Huawei comply with the employment rules and pay a fine of R1.5m or 2% of the unit’s revenue, whichever is greater, she indicated. In addition to affirmative-action measures to ensure companies and the government employ more black people and women, SA labour legislation also regulates the employment of foreign nationals to ensure legal immigrants don’t take up positions that can be filled locally.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by John Bowker and Loni Prinsloo at BusinessLive
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