Employers have three weeks to submit Employment Equity reports to the Department of Labour, a departmental spokesperson said on Monday.

"The Department of Labour calls on employers to hand in their reports in time," Ntsoaki Mamashela, Employment Equity director at the department, said in a statement.

"With only three weeks remaining we urge employers to submit their reports".

The department calls follows the recent launch of the 9th Commission for Employment Equity report which showed that the South African workplace was far from being transformed.

It showed white males occupying 61 percent of top management posts and still enjoying 48 percent of all recruitments.

Labour Minister Membathisi Mdladlana also recently indicated that 44.7 percent of all employees promoted to top management level were white males whereas African males represented only 9.8 percent and comprised only 12.6 percent of all recruitment.

Furthermore, the department's new director-general Jimmy Manyi recently said the so-called "skills shortage", technically and academically, was a "myth''.

Manyi said the majority of people who were skilled in the country were Africans.

"Quite clearly, we have come to accept that there is no will power to appoint black people to positions of authority" he said in the statement.

Manyi has also called for an amendment to the law to deal with non-compliant companies.

He said the time had come for the state to refuse to do business with companies which failed to comply with the law.