PSA calls for stricter enforcement following charges against Home Affairs employers [SOUND]

# The Public Servants Association has expressed concern eight-thousand-180 Home Affairs Department employers have been charged over the past five financial years, for employing foreign nationals without valid work permits. Home Affairs minister Leon Schreiber says six-thousand-279 workplace inspections and operations were conducted during the same period as part of efforts to enforce immigration laws. PSA’s Claude Naicker says there is a need for stronger interdepartmental coordination to ensure that immigration, labour, and law-enforcement authorities act cohesively: