South Africa needs to push hard for transformation in the workplace or risk having the ‘status quo prevailing for the next 100 years’, says Employment and Labour minister Thulas Nxesi.
Nxesi was speaking on South Africa’s latest employment equity figures which show that more than two decades since the enactment of the Employment Equity Act to transform the South African labour market, compliance levels still remain low.
He added that the representation of foreign nationals still remains relatively high at 3%, although a slight decline of 0.1% is noted from the previous year at this occupational level. Transformation at the top management is more visible within the public sector. Nxesi aims to address these figures through the introduction of the Employment Equity Amendment Bill in September 2022, in what is expected to be the vanguard of a new transformation push for the country.
The amendments would also require the government to issue contracts only to firms that have been certified as compliant with this law. The bill is currently before president Cyril Ramaphosa for consideration.
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