Sakeliga takes Employment Equity quotas fight to ConCourt [SOUND]

# Sakeliga and the National Employers’ Association of South Africa have taken their challenge against Employment Equity quotas to the Constitutional Court, in a final bid for urgent relief. The business groups are seeking to overturn a lower court decision that refused to suspend the new regulations, which impose strict race and gender hiring targets on companies with 50 or more employees. Sakeliga’s Anton Meijer argues the rules could place heavy compliance burdens on businesses: