Court suspends SAPS Employment Equity Plan - Solidarity
No appointments to be made based on race and gender until Constitutional Court decides
15 April 2016
The Labour Court in Johannesburg granted an urgent application by Solidarity to temporarily suspend the South African Police Service’s new Employment Equity Plan. In terms of the interdict the SAPS’s new Employment Equity Plan, which would apply to the period from 2015 to 2019, has been suspended until the Constitutional Court gives judgment in the matter between the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) and Solidarity.
“The court has clearly drawn a line in the sand as far as affirmative action is concerned. Government’s affirmative action strategy will have to be revisited in its totality,” Solidarity Chief Executive Dirk Hermann said.
In terms of the Labour Court’s judgment the SAPS may not make any appointment or promotion based on the principles as contained in the 2015-2019 Employment Equity Plan.