Mildred Oliphant wants more stick and less carrot in Employment Equity Act
Labour minister says the equity report shows that transformation of the South African labour market has been painfully slow
09 May 2017 - 13:27
Labour Minister Mildred Oliphant said the 2016 Employment Equity Report points to a painfully slow pace of transformation in the South African labour market. The report released in Pretoria on Tuesday showed that white people occupied 68% of the of the country’s top management positions in the public and private sectors, six times the group’s economically active population. Africans made up only 14.4% of top management, but this group dominated the unskilled employees level at 83%.
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