This text focuses on guiding employers, managers, labour relations practitioners, trade unions and students alike in understanding and applying the provisions of South Africa's latest employment equity legislation - the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998.

This text focuses on guiding employers, managers, labour relations practitioners, trade unions and students alike in understanding and applying the provisions of South Africa's latest employment equity legislation - the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998. Main features of the publication: detailed discussions on the practical implementation and application of the most important and relevant provisions of the Employment Equity Act; step-by-step, clear guidelines to help employers conduct the equity analysis, consult with the relevant stakeholders on the equity process and develop the employment equity plan and the equity report; a discussion of the Code of Good Practice for the preparation, implementation and monitoring of employment equity plans recently released by the government. Included is a reproduction of the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998 and copies of all the relevant forms that employers are required to fill in and submit to the Director General - the Employment Equity Report, the Income Differential Statement, a statement about demographic data and a form detailing occupational levels and categories.

• Introduction
• the prohibition of unfair discrimination
• affirmative action
• preparation, implementation and monitoring of the employment equity plan
• conducting the organisational audit
• monitoring, enforcement and legal proceedings
• general provisions of the Employment Equity Act
• psychometric testing
• employment equity and the outsourcing of labour
• diversity management.