There needs to be a drastic change to improve employment equality in the work place, Labour Minister Membathisi Mdladlana said on Wednesday.

At a relaxed briefing at Mdladlana's home at the presidential guesthouse in Pretoria, he said the employment equality report, which would be released on Thursday, "really does not look good".

He said the way in which employers sought to address equality in the workplace ? and how government ensured equality ? needed to be tweaked.

"We need do to something dramatic and drastic. If we see people are dragging their feet then we need to give them wheels."

He said it was not only a question of a racial equality but that of empowering the disabled and women.

Referring to his home, he said he was embarrassed that one of the commissioners who used a wheelchair had to be carried up from the steps.

"You could not enter this house, we had to lift you," he said to the commissioner.

Mdladlana said the idea of bringing self regulation into law in order to implement equality left him dumb-founded.

He said 10 years after the report had been released, the government could not continue to hope that things would simply change without transforming the way it approached equality.