Employers with 50 or more employees must submit Employment Equity reports annually. The plan must aim to achieve the sector-specific targets set in 2025.
Employers with less than 50 employees can obtain a certificate of compliance from the Department of Employment and Labour.
What is Employment Equity?
Employment Equity promotes the representation of women, people of colour and people with disabilities (the designated groups) in the economy.
What percentage of my workforce should come from designated groups?
Sector targets were published in 2025. The sector targets must be achieved by the end of 2030.
Very important
The sector targets must be achieved by the end of 2030.
What does the Employment Equity Act require?
1. Employment Equity plan
A five-year plan that covers:
- Consultation and communication with relevant stakeholders
- An analysis of your existing workforce profile and the demographics of your area
- Setting Employment Equity objectives
- Formulating corrective measures based on the analysis
- Employment Equity committee meetings
- Reporting on the plan to the Department of Employment and Labour
2. Employment Equity report
The report shows your company’s progress towards the objectives in your Employment Equity plan.
3. Employment Equity committee
The committee is strictly consultative and represents all the stakeholders in your organisation.
What XSEVEN offers you
- Compile the EEA 12, a mandatory workplace analysis.
- Develop EEA 13, the EEA plan, to address what the workplace analysis (the EEA 12) revealed.
- Assist with the facilitation of employment equity meetings.
- Compile and submit employment equity plans.