THE Department of Employment and Labour is preparing to introduce the amended Employment Equity Act in 2022.
Among other changes, the legislation will allow the employment and labour minister to set employment equity targets for different business sectors.
The minister can set targets for different occupational levels, sub-sectors or regions.
The department said that the legislation aims to reduce the regulatory burden on small businesses and add rules for doing business with the government.
“The expected introduction of five-year sector targets will mark the beginning of a clean slate,” said the department’s director of employment equity Ntsoaki Mamashela.
“All current employment equity plans will fall away on 22 September 2022, and the new plans will have to be aligned with five-year targets. Self-regulation has not worked,” she said.
Mamashela said further sector engagements which started in 2019 on sector targets would continue. She said talks have already been held with
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