LETTER: Employment department is out of touch
Employers are in retrenchment mode and are unable to meet demographic targets
01 December 2019 - 17:31
We had the dubious honour last Wednesday of a presentation from the department of employment & labour on its employment equity observations for the 2018 reporting period. Once again there was the lament of how the legislation has failed, and the department is intending to make the regulatory authority more onerous and punitive as a result.
Yet it has often been pointed out to the labour ministry that employers are in retrenchment mode and certainly are unable to meet the expected demographic targets. ..
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