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
Tag: EEA
Comments on Revised BBBEE Codes
We wish to bring to the attention of the committee, our observations and comments pertaining to Code 700. (Page 56 3.2.2) This code pertains the Corporate Social Investment pillar of BBBEE. Brief Our issue lies not with the original code which requires for 75% of the beneficiaries, of an NPO/NGO to be black persons, in order for maximum BBBEE points to be scored by companies wishing to donate funds to NPO’s. However, our problem is 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
Disclosure campaigns and why they fail
The need for support and how this promotes disclosure As is now well known since earlier this year, all staff need to participate themselves in completing the EEA1 Employment Equity Act forms, as required by the department of Labour. Admittedly, at the time of writing it was mooted by DOL that should anyone not complete EEA1, the relevant line or HR manager could complete it at his or her best discretion. On the form, employees READ MORE
A Business Perspective on Disability
Forward to the “Best Company to work for” publication 2005 Published by Corporate Research Foundation By 2005, employers, including the Government have to file compliance or failure in the most underestimated and misunderstood aspect of our country’s transformation process: Disability Equity. Unlike race and, to a lesser extent, gender, disability has been inadequately addressed in terms of the designated groups highlighted within the Employment Equity Act (EEA). Much energy has been spent on attempting to READ MORE