Perspectives on employing Persons with Disabilities (3/4)

The business case view Jeremy continues on his theme that if employers wish to take  disability employment seriously then a perspective view is necessary. In this third of four podcasts produced by Lois Strachan, Jeremy Opperman explores the business case  for disability inclusion as the third part of his  trinocular view model. Moving away from  the other two views or lenses , the legislative compliance view and the human rights view, Jeremy states that  the READ MORE

Perspectives on employing Persons with Disabilities (2/4)

The Human Rights view In this podcast, produced by Lois Strachan and the second of four episodes, Jeremy Opperman continues on his trinocular theme of needing to look at the employment of persons with disabilities  with perspective. Taking into account not just the legislative requirement to employ people with disability but for employers to look through two other lenses as well – the human rights lens and the business case lens – if they wish READ MORE

Perspectives on employing Persons with Disabilities (1/4)

The Legislative View The importance of perspective in understanding the employment of persons with disabilities. In this podcast, the first in a series of four episodes,  produced by Lois Strachan, Jeremy Opperman discusses the complexity of employing people with disabilities in the South African context. With his characteristic frankness and drawing on his 24 years of disability inclusion experience, he unpacks the fundamental pro’s and con’s and challenges of fixating on legislative compliance rather than READ MORE

Is Employment Equity Still Alive?

Of course it’s still alive.  But is it really, in the sense that it is effective and significant, and adhered to, let alone understood? Here’s the problem, if Employment Equity was still in the frame and being adhered to by organizations obliged to submit EE reports, then how come so many companies simply disregard basic EEA rules? It’s just happened again!  I have just been informed by a nearly tearful employment agent attached to a READ MORE

Comments on BBBEE Revised Codes October 2012

We wish to bring to the attention of this committee, our observations and comments pertaining Code 300 and 200, as Gazetted in 2007 and now recently revised in October 2012. These Codes are the “Measurement of the Employment Equity element of Broad based Black Economic Empowerment”. (BBBEE) Brief Our issue lies not with any proposed amendments to the Codes but to the Employment Equity related codes in general, and to how they relate to and READ MORE