This week saw business owners of all from all sectors and business sizes act fast and hold emergency meetings with staff and their management to implement processes and mitigate risks that the corona-virus has impacted. President Cyril Ramaphosa's and his cabinet implemented fair and strict measures to ensure the safety of South Africa and its [...]
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) published new draft employment equity regulations for the ICT sector. The draft aims to promote equity ownership by Historically Disadvantaged Persons and to promote Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE)’, Icasa said. The group plans to introduce these changes through: The implementation of a revised ICT sector code; [...]
17 years in business and over 50 years of experience All registered companies are registered with a particular SETA based on the core business undertaking of the company (i.e. their primary sector in industry). Companies also need to submit an Annual Training Report (ATR) and a Workplace Skills Plan (WSP) every year. By submitting the [...]
Employees Should Understand An alarming number of workers in South African do not learn about labour law, despite the fact that the laws are available to the public. In a country where transformation has been high on agenda ever since 1998, overall corporate transformation is apparently only cheap talk with numerous South African employees crying [...]
To the CEO and HR or EE Managers Please read below and reply “BOOKING” should you like to book. Note that the Employment Equity Regulations has changed as per the Government Gazette, 8 August 2019. You will need to familiarise yourself with the changes before you submit your EE reports between today and 15 January [...]
With South Africa’s unemployment rate at an all-time high, learnerships are necessary to help build a competent workforce as well as the key to boosting an organisation’s B-BBEE levels in the process. According to Richard Rayne, CEO of iLearn, a learning solutions-based business and the leader in next generation learning for business in the country, [...]
Unemployment in South Africa has risen close to the 30% mark. In a country of approximately 58 million people that means almost 17,4 million people are unemployed. That by any standard is not acceptable. Eskilz College an accredited private college in partnership with Sizanani a registered NPO have through its 17 years of successfully implementing [...]
According to Richard Rayne, CEO of iLearn, companies that are obliged by law to contribute to the country's Skills Development Fund (SDF) through paying the mandatory skills development levy will find a number of important benefits if they include learnerships in their annual Workplace Skills Plan (WSP). A learnership is a work-based learning programme directly [...]
In terms of the Skills Development Act, businesses with a payroll in excess of R500 000 per annum must pay a statutory tax in the form of a skills development levy (SDL). This tax must be paid regardless of whether the business trains its employees or not. The SDL amount is calculated as 1% of [...]
In November, South Africa’s unemployment rate reached a 12-year high of 27.1 percent. Although this figure has since dropped to 26.5 percent (92000 people have found employment), South African unemployment ranks as one of the highest in the world. Unemployment is driven mainly by our skills crisis. Programmes, such as corporate learnerships, that build skills [...]
