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Siyaya Consulting offers BBBEE Consulting Services, EE and SDF Services and Disability Management to help your organisation comply legislatively, drive transformation, produce a more equitable workplace, and empower individuals.
STANDARD AND BESPOKE SERVICES AND SOLUTIONS
- BBBEE Consulting Services
- Skills Development Facilitation Services
- Employment Equity Services
- Disability Management
- Learnership Implementation: Accredited Qualifications, Skills Programmes and Project Management
UNIQUELY POSITIONED
- An established reputation with nearly 20 years’ experience and expertise in BBBEE, EE, and SDF consulting and compliance as well as Disability Management.
- A dynamic, highly skilled team with specialist and current knowledge and the consulting abilities to find the best solution to your organisation’s unique requirements.
- Access to other companies within the LD Group to ensure a single point of access and positive outcomes linked to Broad-based Black Economic Empowerment compliance and professional development.
- Services that maximise financial and strategic growth.
- Design of measurable BBBEE Compliance Strategies to align with your organisation’s overall strategy.
FAQ
If your company is a designated employer and registered as such with the Department of Employment and Labour, then EE reports must be submitted annually before 15 January
If your company employs more than 50 people or meet the annual turnover requirement (see Schedule 4 of the Act). These include: NGOs, trade unions, trusts, co-operatives, professional practices, sport codes and churches.
The quality of the workforce will be improved which in turn will lead to better provision of quality goods and services, which has the potential to instil trust in South African businesses both locally and internationally.
It is a legislative requirement to be compliant with the Skills Development Act for the purpose of BBBEE compliance. We assist our clients in accessing funding from respective SETA’s. Your company’s skills shortages will be addressed.
A Disability Management Programme gives organisations/employers a way to understand, and incorporate the employment of people with disabilities into their environment with the necessary support they need. This creates an inclusive, co-operative and productive workplace and employers meet their Employment Equity targets.
BBBEE consulting involves a BEE consultant advising and helping you achieve your desired level of BBBEE compliance, efficiently and cost-effectively. It is a process of guiding a client towards the required BEE compliancy level. It involves managing, collecting, and compiling documentation for verification.
Employment equity is governed by the Employment Equity Act, which aims to: “achieve equity in the workplace, by a) promoting equal opportunity and fair treatment in employment through the elimination of unfair discrimination; and b) implementing affirmative action measures to redress the disadvantages in employment experienced by designated groups, to ensure their equitable representation in all occupational categories and levels in the workplace. A designated group means black people, women and people with disabilities. “Black” refer to “African, Coloured and Indian.
PIVOTAL Programmes is an acronym which means Professional, Vocational, Technical and Academic learning programmes that result in occupational qualifications or part qualifications on the National Qualifications Framework e.g. Learnerships, Apprenticeships, Recognition of Prior Learning, Skills Programmes and Graduate Development.
Skills development facilitation is the process where a Skills Development Facilitator (SDF) analyses, plans, implements, and reports on all training activities in an organisation. The SDF develops and monitors personal development plans for each employee, draws up Workplace Skills Plans (WSPs) and is responsible for SETA related duties for the organisation.
Our Skills Development Facilitators (SDF’S) assist our clients with effective skills development by means of an integrated approach to education, training and development initiatives that are aligned to our clients’ needs, compliant with relevant legislation and further to ensure that quality standards are adhered to.
Submissions to all SETA’s are due by 30 April annually.
The levy grant scheme, legislated through the Skills Development Levies Act, 1999, serves to fund the skills development initiative in the country. The intention is to encourage a planned and structured approach to learning, and to increase employment prospects for work seekers.
According to the Skills Development Levies Act, all employers that have a payroll of more than R500 000 per annum have to pay a skills development levy (SDL) to SARS. The levy is calculated as 1% of your wage bill, payable monthly.
The Skills Development Act aims to expand the knowledge and competencies of the labour force in order to improve productivity and employment. The main aims of the Act are: To improve the quality of life of workers, their prospects of work and labour mobility.
Our team of Specialists offer assistance every step of the way to our clients in order to ensure full compliance with all relevant sections of the Employment Equity Act and Regulations.
Monetary fines can be imposed. Fines can vary between R1.5M for non-compliance with any given section of the Employment Equity Act up to a maximum of 10% of turnover. Our clients have always had successful audits. None of our clients have ever been referred to the Labour court for non-compliance
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