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Skills Development: Financial Benefits for your company
Skills development is one of the priority elements of the BBBEE scorecard. Skills development measures the extent to which a company carries out initiatives designed to develop the competencies of black people both internal and external to the company. The sub-minimum...
2020 WSP / ATR Submissions Deadlines
Call to all SDF’s who have not yet completed their WSP / ATR submission for 2019 / 2020: 7 days to go before the deadline but there is still time for you to submit. The merSETA NSDMS (Skills development portal) has beaten most of the bugs in the system from last year...
Unsure how to implement the National Minimum wage?
The National Minimum Wage (NMW) came into effect in January 2019, prohibiting Employers from paying lower than the prescribed hourly rates published within the Act. The new minimum wage of R20 per hour applies across all sectors; however there are a number of...
The Strategic Role of a Skills Development Facilitator
Annual Skills Development grant submissions are due for by 30th of April 2019, and the system for all SETA’s is open for capture. In order to claim for funding from the Sectoral Education Training Authority (SETA) a company must submit a Workplace Skills Plan (WSP)...
Mandatory Grant submissions 2019/2020 are due 30 April 2019
Friday 1st of February and the the newly implemented grant application system for merSETA (as well as other SETA’s) is officially open! The submission deadline for the financial period 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020, for Mandatory and Discretionary grant submissions by...
Parental Leave and other Amendments
A massive expectation has been created by the announcement of the signing of the Amendment Bills to give effect to the changes to the Acts. However, it is still premature to just take them as given. The amendments will only come into full effect once President...
CCMA State of readiness for new minimum wage
The National Minimum Wage Act (NMWA) came into effect on 1 January 2019, whereby the national minimum wage was set at R20 per hour, with special provisions of R18 per hour (farm workers), R15 per hour (domestic workers), and R11 per hour (Extended Public Works...
National Minimum Wage Exemption
The debate over the minimum wage amendments effective January 1st 2019, continue to lead news highlights due to its contentious nature. One assumes that everyone would be in agreement that the effects of the increase should result in benefits to the entire country but...
Employment Equity – Are you on Track?
While many companies are powering through their December workload with the aim of meeting deadlines and targets before the year end shut-down, there is one aspect of the business that cannot be powered through without some serious attention to detail and thought. And...
What you need to know about the new Paternity leave legislation
Much excitement has been filtering through the country as fathers-to-be have recently become eligible for paternity leave. A great many dads in waiting are thrilled to be able to play a larger role in the early days of their newborns life. With many households being...