By Johnathan Paoli
Afrikaans trade union Solidarity has filed an urgent complaint with the International Labour Organisation on the government allegedly breaching the terms of a race law settlement agreement reached in 2023.
Solidarity deputy chief executive Anton van der Bijl accused the Labour and Employment Department of acting in bad faith.
“Our authorities always have a lot to say about the abuse of human rights while they themselves are guilty of it. Now, even expecting the government to respect signed international treaties, and the settlements concluded under them, is too much to ask. We call on the ILO to urgently intervene in the racial abuses taking place in South Africa,” Van der Bijl said on Thursday.
Solidarity, known for its legal activism around employment equity and affirmative action, claims that the government’s recent publication of employment equity regulations and sectoral targets, gazetted in April, violates the 2023 agreement.
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