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Read More“A report, issued by the United Nations’ Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), takes government to task over its use of old apartheid classifications in its presentation of statistics. Moreover, the...
Read MoreThe union’s application for a declaratory order succeeded and the Minister’s Employment Equity Plan (EEP) for 2010-2014 was invalidated. The Labour Court decided that the Minister had not breached s 195(1) of the Constitution...
Read MoreSolidarity v SA Police Services (JS 469/12) [2015] ZALCJHB 120; [2015] 7 BLLR 708 (LC) (2 April 2015) per Tlhotlhalemaje, AJ. The Labour Court refused an application concerning the use of ‘quotas’ instead of ‘numerical goals’. ...
Read MoreCourtesy of Saflii it is possible to provide free links to all but one of these recent judgments. Apart from noting the result there are very brief head-notes with references to the applicable sections of the labour statutes....
Read MoreAre numerical goals really the same as quotas and must employers use national or regional demographic statistics ? Carol Paton’s article Race statistics fears in equity bill unfounded first appeared in Business Day on 16 July...
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