THE Employment Equity Amendment Bill, if implemented, will damage any chances of the country attaining meaningful growth and unemployment will rise from more than 46% on the expanded definition to above 50% on the expanded definition, says Institute of Race Relations (IRR) head of policy research Dr Anthea Jeffery and head of campaigns Gabriel Crouse.
They note that the two core provisions of the Bill aim to allow the Minister of Employment and Labour to set racial quotas for job appointments by businesses with 50 employees or more in specified sectors of the economy and to bar such businesses from contracting with the government unless they have complied with the Minister’s quotas or justified their failure to do so on reasonable grounds.
“The Bill contains heavy fines for any failure to comply with the Minister’s racial quotas, or numerical targets, as current Minister Thulas Nxesi prefers to call them.
Penalties begin at R1.5-million or 2% of yearly turnover
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