Solidarity is heading to the United Nations to stop all “race laws” in South Africa.
Solidarity has announced its plans to take the government before the United Nations Committee over its intended implementation of the Employment Equity Act.
“Although our settlement earlier this year to stop the government’s proposed race laws was a major breakthrough, we are now taking it even further,” said Dr Dirk Hermann, Solidarity’s chief executive.The union noted that more details about Solidarity’s campaign at the UN against South Africa’s race laws will be provided on Monday .The Department of Employment and Labour says that the new proposed employment equity targets determined by the minister are “not about race”.
“People only take one small issue but change it into a big issue. They think Employment Equity is only about race, and that is not true,” he said. The laws assented to by President Cyril Ramaphosa in April empower the minister of employment and labour to set race-based targets for each sector in the country, which need to be achieved in five years., presenting racial demographic targets for 18 sectors across four job categories, covering five racial groups .
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