{"id":249173,"date":"2026-11-05T20:30:41","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T18:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-labour-law-reforms-stalled-for-a-decade\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T20:30:41","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T18:30:41","slug":"namibia-labour-law-reforms-stalled-for-a-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-labour-law-reforms-stalled-for-a-decade\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Labour Law Reforms Stalled for a Decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">Justice minister Fillemon Wise Immanuel has expressed concern over delays in reforming Namibia&#8217;s labour laws.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">He said amendments to the Labour Act and the Affirmative Action (Employment) Act have remained unfinished for nearly a decade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Immanuel said the amendment of the Labour Act began in 2016, while the process to amend the Affirmative Action (Employment) Act started in 2017.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"5\">However, neither has been completed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a> for the latest headlines<br \/>\n  <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">&#8220;Ten years&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202611050518.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justice minister Fillemon Wise Immanuel has expressed concern over delays in reforming Namibia&#8217;s labour laws. He said amendments to the Labour Act and the Affirmative Action (Employment) Act have remained unfinished for nearly a decade. Immanuel said the amendment of the Labour Act began in 2016, while the process to amend the Affirmative Action (Employment) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":249174,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,7671,8361,7077,4706,724,257,7580,254,17325],"class_list":["post-249173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-decade","tag-labour","tag-law","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-reforms","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stalled"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}