{"id":561842,"date":"2022-02-23T13:14:09","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T11:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=561842"},"modified":"2022-02-23T13:14:09","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T11:14:09","slug":"government-in-talks-with-huawei-south-africa-to-settle-out-of-court-over-hiring-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/technology\/561842\/government-in-talks-with-huawei-south-africa-to-settle-out-of-court-over-hiring-violations\/","title":{"rendered":"Government in talks with Huawei South Africa to settle out of court over hiring violations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Employment and Labour is negotiating a possible out-of-court settlement with Huawei South Africa, which it says has failed to meet employment equity rules.<\/p>\n<p>Fikiswa Mncanca-Bede, a lawyer at the labour department, told <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/exclusive-safrica-talks-with-huawei-subsidiary-settle-lawsuit-over-hiring-2022-02-23\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a> <\/strong>its officials met with Huawei Technologies South Africa&#8217;s representatives on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are still negotiating a settlement out of court with some conditions,&#8221; she said. &#8220;(The) case has been stayed until we reach an agreement or not.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mncanca-Bede said the department was aiming to conclude negotiations by Friday.<\/p>\n<p>On 11 February, the department announced that it has filed court papers against Huawei Technologies South Africa due to non-compliance with employment equity policies.<\/p>\n<p>Huawei Technologies South Africa was audited in 2020 and found to be non-compliant in that they employ approximately 90% foreign nationals, which violates the Employment Equity Policy (EAP), it said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Huawei&#8217;s legal department contacted the department in an attempt to reach an amicable resolution. When asked about the 90% foreign national employment, the legal person stated that Huawei was granted permission by the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) to employ the number of foreign nationals they do.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In investigating this matter, we worked with DHA to determine whether DHA had granted Huawei a permit to employ more than 40% foreign nationals, as required by the immigration regulations. It was discovered that Huawei was granted a permit in accordance with the provisions of the immigration regulations that required them to employ 60% South Africans and 40% foreign nationals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/561556\/business-warns-of-stricter-transformation-laws-planned-for-south-africa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Business warns of stricter transformation laws planned for South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Employment and Labour is negotiating a possible out-of-court settlement with Huawei South Africa, which it says has failed to meet employment equity rules.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":317386,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9878],"tags":[26,1635],"class_list":["post-561842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-headline","tag-huawei"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561842"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":561846,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561842\/revisions\/561846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}