EMPLOYMENT EQUITY
Short Course
ONE-DAY COURSE
This programme is a practical focus on the Employment Equity Act and its Regulations – considering any applicable proposed amendments and what this may mean for employers going forward. Best Practice will be considered as well as applicable case law to provide you with a real time, robust and relevant experience to ensure procedural and substantive compliance.
ONE-DAY COURSE
INTRODUCTION
- The Constitution and the birth of Employment Equity
- Objectives of the Employment Equity Act
APPLICATION
- Rights and obligations – designated employers and designated employees – what does this mean?
ELIMINATION OF UNFAIR DISCRIMINATION
- Unpacking the definition of discrimination
- Prohibited grounds of differentiation
- Medical and Psychological assessments defenses against allegation of unfair discrimination disputes (affirmative action and inherent requirements of the job)
- Referring an unfair discrimination case
- Onus in unfair discrimination
- Dispute resolution
IMPLEMENTATION OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION MEASURES
- Obligation of consultation
- Role of the employment equity committee representative
- Subjects for consultation – analysis (national or regional demographics, workforce profile, barrier analysis)
- Employment equity plan and employment equity report
- Definition of affirmative action measures
- What it means to be suitably qualified
ROLES, RESPONSIBILITIES & FUNCTIONS OF THE EE COMMITTEE
- Monitoring Employment Policies, Procedures and Practices
- Monitoring/evaluating Implementation of an EE Plan
- Identifying EE barriers – recruitment, promotion, and succession
- Benchmarking best practice
- Confidentiality – salaries and personal information
- Frequency of meetings and agenda
OVERLAP OF EE WITH SKILLS DEVELOPMENT & THE LINK WITH BBBEE
- Understanding the BBBEE Scorecard
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