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legislation on business Flashcards

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purpose of SDA

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invests in education and training of workers
encourages workers to participate in learning programmes

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positive impact of the SDA

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  • trains employees to improve productivity in the work place
  • promotes self employment and black entrepreneurship
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negative impact of the SDA

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  • increases cost as the process requires large amount of paper work
  • implementation of the SDA can be difficult to monitor and control
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Discriminatory actions according to the SDA

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  • unfair promotion of skills and development to certain employees
    -furnishing false information in any prescribed document
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penalties for non-compliance for the SDA

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  • a labour inspector can stop the business from operating if the business is found guilty of illegal practices
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ways to comply with SDA

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  • employees who collect PAYE should register with SETA’S
  • business with more than 50 employees should employ a skills development facilitator
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Role of the SETA’S

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  • promotes and establishes leadership
  • collect levies and pays out grants as required
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Funding of SETA’s

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  • skills development levies paid by employers
    funds received from rendering services
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Function of the National skills development strategy

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  • improves social development through economic development
  • improves acesss to training programmes
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Functions of the Human Resource Development strategy

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  • promotes social development and alleviates poverty
  • improves the supply of skills
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purpose of LRA

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  • promotes collective bargaining in a workplace
  • establishes labour courts and labour appeal courts
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positive impact on the LRA

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  • promotes a healthy relationship between employer and employees
  • protects the rights of businesses in labour related issues
  • labour disputes are settled quicker and are less expensive
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negative impact of the LRA

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– productivity decreases if employees are allowed to participate in activities of the trade union
- costs of labour increases because of legal strikes
- reduce global competitiveness because of low productivity

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Discriminatory actions according to LRA

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  • unfair dismissal of employees
  • refusing establishment of workplac forums
  • forcing employees to give up trade union memberships
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Penalties for the LRA

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  • business that fail to comply with this act end up facing financial costs which are risky
  • businesses will be fined if they fail to comply with the agreements
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purpose of the EEA

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  • this act states that employees that do the same work must be paid eqaully
  • no discrimination on grounds of gender in the workplace
  • promotes eqaul oppurtunities and fair treatment in workplace
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positive impact of the EEA

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  • promotes equal oppurtunity and treatment in the workplace
  • provides all employees with an equal oppurtunity to be selected for a certain position
    -provides employees with legal course if they feel like they being mistreated
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negative impact of the EEA

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  • increased administration since the business is required to submit employment equity reports
  • expensive to train someone who knows little about the act
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discriminatory actions according to the EEA

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  • not employing young women because she would want to have children in the future
  • doing HIV testing unless justified by the labour court
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ways to comply with the EEA

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  • businesses must gaurd against discriminatory appointments
  • promote equal oppurtunites and fair treatment
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purpose of the BCEA

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  • provide clear terms and conditions between the employer and employee
  • set minimum requirements for the employment contract
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positive impact of the BCEA

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  • promotes fair treatment of employees
  • encourages consultation between employers and employees
    -work hours are specified so the employer does not exploit the employee
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negative impact of the BCEA

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  • developing a contract may be time consuming and costly
  • business may regard employment contracts negative and may not implement it
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discrimantory actions according to the BCEA

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  • forbidding employees to discuss wages with other employees
  • preventing employees from having access to employment contracts
  • refusing a medical certificate from a sick employee
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penalties for non-compliance with the BCEA

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  • businesss may be taken to court for labour rulings
  • labour inspectors may investigate compliants and collect evidence
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ways in which businesses comply with BCEA

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  • workers should only 9 hours per day for 5 days a week
  • require a 60 minute after 5 hours of work
  • businesses should not employ kids under the age of 16
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Purpose of COIDA

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  • provides protection to employees who are injured during work
  • applies to full time or casual time employees
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positive impact of COIDA

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  • promotes safety in a work place
  • creates a framework for acceptable employment practices and safety regulations
  • supply administrative guidelines for dealing with claims
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negative impact of the COIDA

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  • claiming process may be time consuming
  • procedures require alot of paper work which is costly
  • implementing the procedures required by the act are expensive
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discriminatory actions according to the COIDA

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  • bribing employees not to report the incident
  • providing false information about previous incidents
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penalties for non-compliance

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  • businesses can be fined for refusing to lodge the claim to the act
  • business can be forced large amounts of money if they did not take the necessary precautions according to the act
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ways to apply with the COIDA

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  • busonesses should provide a healthy and working enviroment
  • keep records of the emplyees income and details of work for four years
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purpose of the BBBEE

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  • enable wealth to be spread more broadly across all population groups
  • allows for the development codes of good practice
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positive impact of the BBBEE

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  • encourages business to adress the demands
  • provides a variety of business codes to improve employment equity
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negative impact of the BBBEE

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  • business that want to do business with the goverment must hae their BBBEE status assesed annually
  • processes may lead to curruption
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discrimantory according to the BBBEE

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  • failing to implement affrimative action to meet BBBEE responsibilties
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penalties of the BBBEE

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  • businesses may face imprisonment for non-compliance
  • penalty could the company’s 10 % annual turn over
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purpose of NCA

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  • promotes social and financial interest of consumers
  • promote a fair but competitive credit market
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positive impact of the NCA

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  • the whole credit process is trnasperant
  • authorised credit providers attract more cosumers
  • lower bad debts resulting in better cash flow
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negative impact of the NCA

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  • business can no longer carry out credit marketing
  • leads to loss of sales as many consumers may no longer qaulify to buy on credit
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discriminatory actions according to the NCA

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  • refusing credit to customers based on gender
  • charging different interest rates to customers based on gender
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penalties for non-compliance

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  • the court may declare the granting of credit by the business reckless
  • businesses may not demand payment
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consumers rights according to the NCA

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  • apply for credit and to be free from discrimination
  • obtain reasons for credit being refused
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purpose of CPA

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  • promote and protect economic interests of consumers by providing access to information
  • promotes responsible consumer behavior
  • establishes a national consumer commission
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positive impact on the CPA

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  • enables business to resolve disputes fairly through the national consumer commision
  • may gain customer loyalty
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negative impact of the CPA

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  • confidential business information may to available to competitors
  • businesses may feel unnecessarily burdened by legal processes
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discriminatory actions according to the CPA

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  • denying customers proper information about the product
  • varying the quality of goods when selling in different areas
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ways to comply with the cpa

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