KHAYA SITHOLE: Slow BEE progress a poser for policymakers
Black people constituted 79% of the economically active population and 17% of top management in 2021
09 November 2022 - 15:42
The debate on BEE policy escalated in the private and public sectors in the past few weeks.
Dis-Chem CEO Ivan Saltzman wrote in a clumsily worded internal memorandum that the group’s progress towards a demographically representative workforce was so woefully inadequate that its executives had placed a moratorium on hiring new white managers. He pointed out that the company risked being fined for failing to meet its employment equity targets, penalties the company would prefer to avoid...
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