EMPLOYMENT EQUITY: The danger of last-second submissions and system errors.

Dear designated employer

The deadline for the 2025 Employment Equity (EE) submission is 15 January 2026, and missing this deadline will result in non-compliance with the EE Act, and may lead to Labour Court action and possible fines.

It is imperative that employers must submit their EE reports before this date.

However, the Department of Employment and Labour’s online system for reporting are notorious for giving errors and crashing constantly, particularly when the deadline is looming.

It is certainly not ideal to miss the deadline, and therefore employers are advised to, should errors occur, continue their efforts to submit and to keep record of their attempts by taking screenshots of the error messages.

Employers should not wait until the last minute on 15 January to submit in order to avoid this pitfall. 

Non-submission of EE reports will place designated employers in an extremely difficult position as they will simply be non-compliant. Although there is no guarantee that proof of attempts to submit and the error messages received will be accepted as an excuse, at the very least it may be used to attempt to mitigate the fallout of non-submission.   

Let NEASA assist you throughout and after this tedious process on EE compliance matters.

Call NEASA now on 012 332 5350 or send an email to compliance@neasa.co.za

For more information

NEASA Media Department

media@neasa.co.za