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Employment Equity: A moving a target
Mid-October 2019 and the Employment Equity reporting portal has been open a month. The Department of Employment and Labour foresaw that companies might need a little extra processing time and they were right! With the changes to the Income Differential...
Employment Equity 1 – Solidarity 0
Labour Court gives thumbs up to Employment Equity following Court challenge The Department of Employment and Labour welcomes the outcome of today’s Labour Court judgement as this reconfirms the Constitutionality and legality of affirmative and the law. This follows...
Important Employment Equity updates September 2019
The 2019 Employment Equity portal was supposed to be accessible for submission, from 1 September however the EE Portal is not yet open. The Department apologies for the delay. All amendments in the recent Bill are not yet effective. This means that those employers who...
19th CEE Annual Report
The CEE remains committed to seeing the objectives of the EEA materialised, as they share the progress to date, in this 19th report (2018). Overview At a broad level, the trends presented in this, 19th Commission for Employment Equity Report, continue to paint a...
The changing Employment Equity landscape
The Employment Equity landscape is starting to look a little more onerous than in previous years, and that just might be the understatement of the year. With the Department Labour under-going many major changes, starting with the Employment Equity Amendment Bill...
What’s the status of Parental Leave?
Frequently Asked Question Employers are still wondering what to do about paternity for the new working dad’s and how long to allow their working mom’s to go on leave. The confusion lies in the fact that the (correctly referred to as) new Parental Leave, while...
Less control for Designated Employers will affect compliance
Imminent Employment Equity amendments will affect your business With just over 4 months to the start of Employment Equity reporting season, now is the time for designated employers to focus on their energies on the progress of Employment Equity within their...
Serious absenteeism affects your workplace
The scourge of high absenteeism Chronic absenteeism remains one of the biggest problems facing companies around the country. The management of employees, who abuse their leave, can often be a delicate process especially when there are personal reasons or illness,...
Avoid unilateral changes to Terms and Conditions of Employment
Under the common law, an employer is not permitted unilaterally to change the terms of an employment contract with an employee. Common law, defined by Investopedia is “a body of unwritten laws based on legal precedents established by the courts” will prevail in an...
Astounding stats from merSETA’s NSDMS system
MerSETA confirms that the National Skills Development Management System (NSDMS), implemented from 1 February 2018, has been assisting stakeholders in Skills Development, to "become more efficient and effective" to "implement and facilitate access to skills development...