While the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPI Act) was enacted as far back as 2013, many people are left to speculate as to when the commencement date shall be, as the one year grace period starts to run from the time of commencement thereof. As if this waiting game isn’t the cause of sufficient frustration with the provisions of the POPI Act, individuals, employers and business owners alike now have to become acquainted with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in order to...

The Protection of Personal Information (POPI) Act will require organisations to be accountable in their personal information processing. Organisations will have to ensure that they comply with the conditions of lawful processing of personal information and all measures that gives effect to such at the time of determination of the purpose and means of the processing and during the processing itself. To demonstrate accountability, organisations have to interpret the legal requirements and...

Amendments to the Skills Development Element (Code 300) of the BEE Codes of Good Practice as published on 31 May 2019 will be effective as of 1 December 2019. In terms of these amendments to the Skills Development Element, the compliance target for skills development expenditure on learning programmes for black people has been reduced from 6% to 3.5% of the leviable amount and the weighting has been reduced from 8 to 6 points. This target includes all accredited as well as unaccredited...

Due to the increased importance of the Skills Development Element (now being a priority element), more and more clients are looking at Learnerships as a possible solution. However, it became clear that clients were not entirely comfortable with the details. The following presentation will briefly explain the WHAT and WHY of Learnerships.

It is that time of the year again when you have to submit your Employment Equity report with the Department of Labour if you qualify as a Designated Employer.  Section 21 of the Employment Equity Amendment Bill Act 47 of 2013 states that all designated employers must submit their employment equity reports annually on the 1st working day of October (for manual submissions) or the prescribed date (for electronic submission) which usually closes in January (15 January 2020). All...