Department of Labour’s employment equity advocacy to promote compliance with legislation moves to Free State.
The Department of Labour’s annual Employment Equity (EE) national roadshows to promote compliance with EE legislation will be held this week in the Free State.
A stakeholder briefing session will therefore be held in Bloemfontein at Protea Hotel Bloemfontein Central (Bloem Plaza, East Burger Street); on the 26 August 2015.
The 2015 EE roadshows are held under the theme: “Transformation - makes business sense”. The objectives of the roadshows is to:
- To publicise the Code of Good Practice on Equal Pay/Remuneration for Work of Equal Value;
- To publicise 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 EE national roadshows presentations are 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 close on 1 October 2015. Online reporting will close on 15 January 2016.
Enquiries:
Josial Ramokoena
Tel: 051 505 6284
Cell: 083 292 4018
E-mail: josial.ramokoena@labour.gov.za
