{"id":249422,"date":"2026-11-08T19:00:21","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T17:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-immanuel-threatens-action-over-labour-reform-delays\/"},"modified":"2026-11-08T19:00:21","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T17:00:21","slug":"namibia-immanuel-threatens-action-over-labour-reform-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-immanuel-threatens-action-over-labour-reform-delays\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Immanuel Threatens Action Over Labour Reform Delays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Justice minister Fillemon Wise Immanuel has warned members of the Labour Advisory Council and the Employment Equity Commission that they risk removal from their positions if they fail to fulfil their responsibilities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">He attributed delays in reforming Namibia&#8217;s labour laws to poor meeting attendance and a lack of accountability.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Immanuel said amendments to the Labour Act, which began in 2016, and the Affirmative Action (Employment) Act, initiated in 2017, remain unfinished, with the processes now&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202611060222.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 warned members of the Labour Advisory Council and the Employment Equity Commission that they risk removal from their positions if they fail to fulfil their responsibilities. He attributed delays in reforming Namibia&#8217;s labour laws to poor meeting attendance and a lack of accountability. Immanuel said amendments to the Labour [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":249423,"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":[6394,258,256,6190,55793,8361,4706,724,257,6099,254,10413],"class_list":["post-249422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-action","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-delays","tag-immanuel","tag-labour","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-reform","tag-south-africa-today","tag-threatens"],"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\/249422","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=249422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}