Talk:Employment Equity
How about some neutrality? There is plenty to criticize about Employment Equity without resorting to emotive propaganda.
Employment Equity (formerly called Affirmative Action) is the description used by the South African Government to describe their policy of disadvantaging people and companies based on race.
There has to be a better description than this.
Strict policy has made it extremely difficult to employ white people, forcing employers to (in any given case) employ a "Previously Advantaged" (black) candidate regardless of skill or suitability.
Any given case? Evidence? And it should be "previously disadvantaged".
Though the South African Constitution (implemented by the current government) states that it is illegal and unconstitutional to discriminate on the ground of race, this movement has nothing but grown, to the point of embracement (and sometimes even abuse) by the corporate sector.
IIRC, the present constitution does allow for the redress of past discrimination.
Fixing the typo complained about in the previous post
[edit]I changed the typo complained about in the pervious post, so that complaint is nullified
Affirmative action
[edit]Have redirected article to Affirmative action, as it's really just another name for the same thing. Note that the affirmative action article is also listed as an NPOV debate. Bearcat 23:10, 26 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Merging with Employment Equity
[edit]The page in BEE should not be merged with a page in Employment Equity... BEE is an overarching process of which Employment Equity is only a part. to merge them would be to misunderstand what BEE is about.
I agree. Jesus geek 01:59, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
I also agree. I don't think Employment Equity covers BEE. They should stay separate articles Joziboy 16 March 2006, 15:39 (UTC)
I also agree. BEE includes parts of employment equity, however, merging the two topics would give a mistaken sense of what BEE is. Aviationwiz 00:24, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
EE vs BEE
[edit]Please note the following: The Employment Equity Act and the BEE Act are two totally separate pieces of legislation, with different goals and definitions. The key element of the latter being the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Scorecard, one of the seven elements of the scorecard is entitled Employment Equity, but again this has been informed by the EE Act but does not replace it, nor is it wholly subservient to it.