COSATU welcomes the coming into effect of the Employment Equity Amendment Act today
1 September 2023
The Employment Equity Amendment (EEA) Act provides badly needed interventions to strengthen government’s ability to hold employers accountable for their role and failures to adhere to the Employment Equity Act. Key progressive provisions in the Act include:
Requiring employers to provide confirmation in their EE Annual Reports that they have paid all their workers at or above the National Minimum Wage.
Expanding the definition of disabilities to include intellectual and sensory impairments, a long overdue correction.
Empowering the Minister to set economic sectoral, sub-sectoral, regional, sub-regional and occupation specific targets; enabling more precise targets for sectors, occupations and regions that are notorious for their failures to reflect South Africa’s demographics.