On-line Employment Equity (EE) reporting on the rise as Department of Labour opens reporting season with EE roadshows
A growing number of employers are submitting their employment equity (EE) reports on-line with over 24 000 having done so with the Department of Labour in 2014.
Addressing the first roadshow of the Department of Labour in 2015, which kick-started in Rustenburg, in the North West today (13 August), Lucia Rayner, Deputy Director of EE in the department expressed joy at this growing trend.
“We thank all employers who have successfully reported online in 2014,” Rayner said.
She said this represented 99,2 percent of designated employers nationally. She said the increased reporting was also due to employment equity campaigns including those in the media.
Rayner said the Department has also improved communication with employers through roadshows.
The second in a series of national EE roadshows wil l be held next week on 19 August in Kimberley, Northern Cape at the Protea Hotel The Big Hole.
The Department of Labour’s annual Employment Equity national roadshows are held to strengthen Employment Equity legislation’s implementation and compliance mechanisms. The EE roadshows are held under the theme: “Transformation - makes business sense”.
The objectives of the roadshows are:
- To publicise the Code of Good Practice on Equal Pay/Remuneration for Work of Equal Value;
- To publici]se the regulated employment equity templates (EE Analysis-EEA12 & EE Plan-EEA13); and
- To encourage designated employers to submit EE Reports On-Line.
Employers (companies, government departments etc.) are by law obliged to submit annually to the Department of Labour of their employment equity reports in regard to demographic profile, representation in the organisations and EE plans to address discrimination and inequity in the workplace.
The outstanding EE roadshows sessions will be held as follows: Polokwane 20 August 2015 at Bolivia Lodge (Opposite Mall of the North on Modjadji Road); Bloemfontein 26 August 2015 at Protea Hotel Bloemfontein Central (Bloem Plaza, East Burger Street); Durban 27 August 2015; Port Elizabeth 2 September 2015; Cape Town 3 September 2015; Witbank (Emalahleni) 8 September 2015 at Protea Hotel Witbank; and Boksburg 9 September 2015 at Birchwood Hotel & Conference 14 View Point Road.
Venues for the rest of the roadshows will be confirmed in due course . The EE national roadshows presentations are to be held between 10:00-13:00.
The roadshows are targeted at employers or heads of organisations, academics, consultative forum members, human resource executives and practitioners; assigned Senior EE Managers/Transformation Managers, trade unions and employees among others.
The EE Act was first promulgated in 1998. It was also recently amended. The amended EE ACT of 2013 was assented in January 2014.
N.B: The EE reporting season opens on 1 September 2015 for both manual and online reporting. Manual reporting submissions closes on 1 October 2015. Online reporting will close on 15 January 2016.
Enquiries:
Mokgadi Pela
Cell: 082 808 2168
