24 March 2006
Labour Minister Membathisi Mdladlana has today (Friday, 24 March 2006)
announced the release of Employment Equity Public Register for employers who
submitted reports for the 3 October 2005 reporting deadline.
He said the Department has captured 2762 reports submitted by employers who
employ 150 or more employees. Only employers who employ 150 or more employees
were required to report in 2005.
âA challenge still exists to improve the quality of the reports submitted to
the Department by employers who continue to submit incomplete and incorrectly
prepared information,â he said.
In order to assist employers, the Department introduced an online service on
the 1 September last year to enable employers to complete and submit their
reports online. This online service assists employers completing the required
information by flagging any outstanding or problematic entries.
âOnly a few employers opted for this method of submission but we are
confident that this will change over time. Employers are warned that the
Department will no longer accept employment equity reports that have not been
fully and correctly completed and employers will in future be deemed not to
have reported until all outstanding information has been supplied,â he
said.
Employers who intend tendering for state contracts are required to provide
proof of submission of their employment equity report to the Department of
Labour.
The next reporting deadline is 2 October this year and all employers with 50
or more employees are required to submit their reports, as well as employers
with fewer than 50 employees whose turnover exceeds their sector threshold in
schedule 4 of the Employment Equity Act.
The Public Register for the 2005 reporting period is available from the
departmental website http://www.labour.gov.za. Hard copies of
Government Gazette No. 28642 are available from the Government Printer at
telephone (012) 334 4508/09/10.
Enquiries:
Mokgadi Pela
Cell: 082 808 2168
Issued by: Department of Labour
24 March 2006
