Employment and Labour Minister, TW Nxesi to engage on Employment Equity with communities in the Northern area of Gqeberha
Employment and Labour Minister, Thulas Nxesi, is to engage with the community of the Northern Area of Gqeberha in an outreach session that will particularly focus on the amendments to the Employment Equity Act.
The amendments of the Employment Equity Act (EEA) including sector-specific targets will take centre stage at the outreach on Thursday, 07 September 2023 with the Gelvandale community including communities from adjacent areas.
The outreach on the Employment Equity Amendments is a ministerial outreach programme that forms part of the Department’s Employment Equity national workshops held under the theme: “Real transformation makes business sense”.
The objectives of the EE amendments is to reduce the regulatory burden for small employers; to empower the Minister to regulate the sector-specific numerical EE targets; to promulgate Section 53; and to strengthen compliance, including the issuing of EE compliance certificates.
As part of the programme, the Department will offer services on the spot to KwaNoxolo and Chetty Community on 5 and 6 September 2023 preceding the Ministerial engagements in Gelvandale Community Centre. Services that will be rendered on-site include;
- Registration of unemployed work-seekers;
- Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) claims, enquiries and complaints;
- Compensation Fund (CF) claims, enquiries and complaints;
- Attending to Labour complaints related to the National Minimum Wage and other basic conditions
Media is invited to attend and cover the sessions to be held as follows:
Services on the spot:
Date: 05 September 2023
Venue: George Botha Hall, KwaNoxolo
Time: 08h00 – 16h00
Date: 06 September 2023
Venue: Boysen Community Hall, Chetty
Time: 08h00 – 16h00
Ministerial Engagement:
Date: 07 September 2023
Service on the spot: 08h00 – 16h00
Ministerial engagement: 12h00 – 14h00
Venue: Gelvandale Community Hall, Gqeberha.
For media enquiries contact:
Sabelo Mali
Media Liaison Officer (Ministry)
Cell: 082 729 5804
E-mail: Sabelo.mali@labour.gov.za
For more information:
Ziphozihle Klaas- Josefu
Provincial Communication Officer
Department of Employment and Labour: Eastern Cape
Cell: 082 308 6306
E-mail: Ziphozihle.josefu@labour.gov.za
