If employers think compliance is expensive ‘let them try non-compliance’, says a senior labour department official. Moneyweb SouthAfrica
Leading retailers TFG and Truworths and industrial firm Barloworld are among the companies under the Department of Labour and Employment’s scrutiny for allegedly failing to comply with employment equity laws. Labour department chief director of statutory and advocacy services Fikiswa Mncanca-Bede alleged that the areas of non-compliance in the cases of TFG and Barloworld are the overrepresentation of white males and females at senior and professionally qualified levels.
It said the process is ongoing and the company is awaiting a response to a comprehensive submission it made to the department earlier this year. “There has been no verdict, court order, application or other proceedings instituted against Truworths in this regard. We remain open to engage constructively with the Department,” it said. The retailer said African, Coloured and Indian employees comprise 93.9% of its workforce in South Africa, while 74.2% of its employees are females.
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