Companies in South Africa should prepare for the planned amendments to the Employment Equity Act (EEA) which promise a number of significant changes to the country’s employment equity laws. In July 2019, Labour minister Thulas Nxesi announced that, the amendment Read the full story
Surface mining industry body Aggregate and Sand Producers Association of South Africa (Aspasa) has called for further engagement with the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) following last year’s release of the Draft Review of Housing and Living Conditions Read the full story
Promoting gender equality and strengthening women’s rights is essential for sustainable development. Recent studies conducted by the B-BBEE Commission for 2017 and 2018 show that black women still occupy less positions compared to males and white people on the boards Read the full story
Following this week’s Labour Court judgement on the constitutionality of the employment equity (EE) the Commission for Employment Equity (CEE) expects the Amended Employment Equity (EE) Bill to be tabled in Parliament before the end of October to enforce transformation Read the full story
A total of 50 JSE Securities-listed companies, including the JSE itself, have been found to be non-compliant with the Employment Equity (EE) Act. The Department of Labour Inspection and Enforcement Services (IES) branch is conducting Director-General Reviews to designated employers, Read the full story
The Department of Labour’s Inspection and Enforcement Services (IES) branch will be taking six companies to court for prosecution for failure to prepare employment equity plans. The companies failed, as per the provisions of s20 (1) of the Employment Equity Read the full story
The KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Government has launched a ground-breaking policy programme geared towards improving the participation of small businesses and small-scale farmers in the economy. “Operation Vula” and its subsidiary, known as the Radical Agrarian Socio-Economic Transformation (RASET), were launched by Read the full story
The Association of Black Securities and Investment Professionals (ABSIP) have noted with great concern the resignation of former Head of Client at ABSA’s Corporate and Investment Banking division, Mr Phakamani Hadebe. Following his resignation, ABSA announced changes in the leadership Read the full story
The South African Employment Equity (EE) Annual Report for the 2015/2016 reporting year, released on 10 May 2017, showed that 68% of management positions are still held by white employees, while African employees occupy only 14.4% of managerial posts in Read the full story
Veteran journalist Steve Motale, 52, has returned to Independent Media, to take over the editorship of The Sunday Independent. Motale is a former executive editor of the Pretoria News, which is part of the Independent Media stable. Motale left Independent Read the full story