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<\/a>Current Eskom employee distribution<\/p><\/div>\n
According to Solidarity, the only racial and gender groups that will not be reduced in terms of the plan are black female employees and coloured female workers.<\/p>\n
\u201cQualifications are not distributed equally among the different population groups. It is therefore unreasonable for Eskom to expect that job levels requiring specific qualifications should reflect the racial distribution of the population,\u201d said Solidarity deputy secretary Johan Kruger.<\/p>\n
Kruger explained that over the next year, Eskom wanted to get rid of about 1,967 professionally qualified and skilled employees as part of its plans. In addition, the power utility has already announced plans in terms of which the national racial demographics should be reflected at all levels in the company by 31 March 2020.<\/p>\n
\u201cEskom\u2019s employees possess specialised knowledge and experience that cannot be easily replaced. Eskom is therefore sacrificing essential skills in order to achieve its ideology of national racial representativeness. It is a lose-lose situation,\u201d said Kruger.<\/p>\n
Dirk Groenewald, head of Solidarity\u2019s Centre for Fair Labour Practices, said the union also added the Department of Labour as a party to the court case as it supports these irrational targets.<\/p>\n
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