Employment Equity
What is Employment Equity
What is employment equity
South Africa is one of the most culturally, racially and economically diverse countries in the world. To ensure that everyone enjoys equal opportunity and fair treatment in the workplace, the Employment Equity Act, No 55 of 1998 was enacted into law.
The Employment Equity Act is the law that promotes equity in the workplace, ensures that all employees receive equal opportunities and that employees are treated fairly by their employers.
The law protects you from unfair treatment and any form of discrimination. The law states that your employer can’t discriminate against you directly or indirectly through employment policy or practice on the grounds of:
Race
Gender
Pregnancy
Marital Status
Family responsibility
Ethnic or social origin
Colour
Sexual Orientation
Age
Disability
Religion
HIV Status
Conscience
Belief
Political Opinion
Culture
Language
Birth
The purpose of the Act is to achieve equity in the workplace, by:
The purpose of the Act is to achieve equity in the workplace, by:
- Promoting equal opportunity and fair treatment in employment through the elimination of unfair discrimination.
- Implementing affirmative action measures to redress the disadvantages in employment experienced by designated groups (A designated group means black people, women, or people with disabilities) to ensure their equitable representation in all occupational categories and levels in the workforce.
Employment Equity Facilitation includes the full scope of the Employment Equity Reporting Process.
This includes:
- Data Collection
- Analyze Workforce Profile
- Evaluate Workforce Profile
- Employment Equity Planning
- Setting up / assisting with committee:
- Constitution
- Roles & Responsibilities
- Appointments
- Identifying barriers
- Training / Workshop for committee members on Employment Equity to ensure maximum understanding and effective function of the committee.
- Training material for committee members
- Policy review and alignment
- Consultation in EE Meeting
- Mentoring of the EE Officer
All of the above, conveniently managed from our online Platform.
Our EE Platform is a cloud-based end-to-end employment equity compliance management system developed to support and assist organisations and employment equity professionals to meet both Department of Labour and internal compliance and record keeping practices.
Our EE Platform has multiple built-in applications that automate laborious and time-consuming tasks and processes and comes standard with all EEA reports, employment equity committee/consultative tools and full integration into BEE Platform and Skills Platform
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