Eliminate unfair discrimination in employment; ensure the implementation of employment equity to redress the effects of discrimination. Essentially, the inquiry found that unfair discrimination in the workplace remains pervasive in South.The purpose of the Act is to remove unfair discrimination and to promote equity in the workplace. How will it help workers and managers? Legislation passed in 1950 set up the Coloured to be the victims of discrimination through geographic segregation. Race discrimination: Employers not "innocent bystanders". Other forms of discrimination include social isolation, violence and verbal harassment or abuse. This is a matter which is brought as an unfair discrimination claim in terms of sections 6 (1) and (3) of the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998 ('the EEA'). In the absence of an equity plan, an employer is obliged to comply with the legislative framework prohibiting discrimination on the grounds of race or sex.