Three win in fight against equity plan

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In a victory for three officials who challenged the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality’s employment equity policy, the metro has backed down and wants to use a different set of demographics to hire staff.

The officials said the policy – which was based on national rather than local racial demographics – was unfair and discriminated against people who were not black Africans.

The municipality will also no longer oppose the officials’ court challenge.

Instead, it will ask Labour Minister Mildred Oliphant to promulgate a law that local demographics for municipalities be used for employment equity.

The officials – Willie Blundin, Dean du Plessis and Allister Jordan – turned to the Labour Court in June.

They said the municipality’s new employment equity plan, for 2013 to 2018, was geared to benefit only black Africans and did not reflect the racial demographics of the metro.

The plan resulted in the city reducing its employment target for coloured staff from 23% to 13%, for whites from 14.36% to 10.5%, and for Indians from 1.11% to 0.8%.

That meant that while black Africans comprise about 60% of the metro’s population, the municipality increased its workforce targets to 75% black Africans.
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Full story in the Herald (paywall): http://www.heraldlive.co.za/three-win-fight-equity-plan/
 
Who was that twat that said CT had to many coloureds so they should move elsewhere for jobs again?
 
I wish they could make it that if a company is 100% white then the demographic should be 100% white. Same for black and Indian. Problem sorted.
 
reactor_sa said:
I wish they could make it that if a company is 100% white then the demographic should be 100% white. Same for black and Indian. Problem sorted.
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I'm a bit slow today. Can you explain what you mean here? I don't mind if you come across as condescending in your explanation: I genuinely don't get what you're saying, and would like to understand it.
 
Sodan said:
I'm a bit slow today. Can you explain what you mean here? I don't mind if you come across as condescending in your explanation: I genuinely don't get what you're saying, and would like to understand it.
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Maybe he meant that a company should reflect the demographics of it's clients?
 
garp said:
Maybe he meant that a company should reflect the demographics of it's clients?
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No he's saying if a company is all white/black/etc owned then it should be allowed to employ only that race. Small companies do do that by the way. Racist but if you're below the equity law threshold you can easily get away with it.
 
R13... said:
No he's saying if a company is all white/black/etc owned then it should be allowed to employ only that race. Small companies do do that by the way. Racist but if you're below the equity law threshold you can easily get away with it.
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How is it racist? A family business may decide to only employ family. Does that make them racists?
 
MickeyD said:
How is it racist? A family business may decide to only employ family. Does that make them racists?
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In South Africa, yes. But as pointed out, if your turnover is below R10m you're an Exempted Micro Enterprise. As with any government inspired social engineering this has unintended consequences as I know a few business that just spawn divisions into new companies with less than R10m turnover as they grow.
 
garp said:
In South Africa, yes. But as pointed out, if your turnover is below R10m you're an Exempted Micro Enterprise. As with any government inspired social engineering this has unintended consequences as I know a few business that just spawn divisions into new companies with less than R10m turnover as they grow.
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Yip that is quite common.
 
garp said:
In South Africa, yes. But as pointed out, if your turnover is below R10m you're an Exempted Micro Enterprise. As with any government inspired social engineering this has unintended consequences as I know a few business that just spawn divisions into new companies with less than R10m turnover as they grow.
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I am well aware of the legal requirements...

I have a small business with a staff complement of 4 family members. We are all "Whites". Are we racists?


My friend has a small business with a staff complement of 3 family members. They are all Indian. Are they racists?
 
MickeyD said:
I am well aware of the legal requirements...

I have a small business with a staff complement of 4 family members. We are all "Whites". Are we racists?


My friend has a small business with a staff complement of 3 family members. They are all Indian. Are they racists?
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Depends on who you ask :D
 
MickeyD said:
I am well aware of the legal requirements...

I have a small business with a staff complement of 4 family members. We are all "Whites". Are we racists?


My friend has a small business with a staff complement of 3 family members. They are all Indian. Are they racists?
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Of course not, but that's the reality of getting business done in this country. And it works very favorably for many of those businesses since there is no end of big corporates and SOE's that subcontract smaller jobs to BEE level 4 exempt micro enterprises since that's where a lot of the skilled staff wound up after the purge. I'm not saying it makes any sense or is any way efficient for the economy since multiple salaries are now being paid to achieve the same thing - i.e. for the peon/s who spend all their time organising outside contractors instead of doing the job themselves, and another for whoever actually does the work.
 
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