By Levy Masiteng
The Democratic Alliance is in talks with its lawyers on the government’s amended employment equity regulations.
It has a number of issues with the new regulations, including that employers must determine the race of their employees if they refuse to disclose it themselves.
This was revealed by Employment and Labour Minister Nomakhosazana Meth in a Parliamentary reply. She said employers would have to use “generic” definitions of persons of colour or rely on “reliable, existing historical data” to classify their employees.
DA employment and labour spokesperson Michael Bagraim said employees should not be forced to disclose their race, and employers should not be tasked with determining it and perpetuation of racial divisions.
“The DA is outraged and will vigorously fight against a pronouncement by the minister… that her department will make employers self-implement sectoral racial quotas, including forcing employers to decide and declare the race of their
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