Labour tackles employment equity challenges

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The Department of Labour’s Commission for Employment Equity (CEE) will meet with manufacturing industry reps in Irene, Gauteng, on Thursday, 14 July 2016. The CEE has recently held a similar session with the retail and motor sector.

Through these sessions, the CEE wants to unblock the challenges employers face in implementing employment equity and coming up with strategies to overcome them.

The CEE is holding these engagements with business leaders from various sectors to address the slow pace of transforming the South African labour market, where EE-designated groups are still confined to the lower levels in the workplace.

More engagements are planned to be held later this month until September 2016 with sectors such as finance, catering and accommodation, mining and quarrying, wholesale, construction, transport, educational institutions and local government.

All engagements will include Sector Education and Training Authority (SETA) and trade unions operating in that particular sector.

All the planned engagements will be held in Gauteng, with the exception of one that will be held on 4 August in Cape Town. Venues of the other engagements will be confirmed in due course.