Johannesburg – Starting tomorrow until Wednesday, the Commission for Gender Equality is to conduct employment equity hearings on the review of transformation in the public and private sectors.
"In accordance with the powers outlined in the CGE Act, as amended, the CGE continuously draws a sample of directors-general from the public sector and chief executive officers from the private sector for them to account for the slow pace of gender transformation in their respective workplaces.
“They are also requested to account for the inadequate promotion of gender equality and women’s empowerment, particularly for women with disabilities,” the commission said.
After the hearings, the commission will develop recommendations to help the two sectors implement ways to ensure the realisation of gender equality in the workplace.
The objective of these transformation hearings with both the public and private sectors, among others, is to assess compliance with employment equity legislation and its policies, assess compliance with other transformation legislation and its policies, and assess the impact of transformation legislation and policies on persons with disabilities, women, and other previously disadvantaged groups in the public and private sectors.
The hearings will also address the institutional and systematic barriers to economic and gender diversity in the workplace on the progress of women and persons with disability, raise awareness of relevant international commitments to gender transformation and the importance of compliance.
The hearings will also raise and address transformation policy gaps and implementation challenges, make findings and recommendations of the necessary improvements and corrections to improve policy implementation, consult and liaise with relevant stakeholders for their input on all of the above and monitor the implementation of the commission’s recommendations by each public or private entity.
The Star