Skills Development Act Flashcards
Administratively Burdensome
The implementation of the act involves large amounts of paperwork
Skills Development Act
-It plays a significant role in ensuring that the South African workforce is skilled and contributes to the productivity and economic growth of the country
-It aims to enable more South Africans to gain access to skills training opportunities that have long-term benefits for the population and society
The Purpose
-Improve productivity in the workplace
-Implementation of strategies
-Invests in the education and training of the South African workforce
-Improves the job prospects
Impact of SDA on businesses
Positive:
-Improves productivity
-Increases the number of skilled employees
-Improves the delivery of services
-Increases the ROI in education
Negatives:
-Time-consuming
-Not always supported by businesses
-Difficult to monitor
-Productivity in the workplace may decline
Non-compliance actions by the SDA
-Falsifying information
-Promoting skills development unfairly
-Providing incorrect and irrelevant information to employees
-Preventing employees access to learnerships
Penalties (Consequences) for non-compliance
-Businesses that don’t pay the SDL may not offer learnerships
-The businesses operating licence may be revoked
-May receive large fines
-May receive a compliance order
Compliance order
A document issued by a court of law to a business that forces the business to comply with a specific aspect of a legislation
Revoked
The business licence can be officially cancelled
ways in which businesses can comply with the SDA
-Display a summary of the SDA
-Assess the skills of employees
-Pay 1% of it over to SETA
-Register with SETA
SETA
A vocational skills training organisation in South Africa that identified manages and creates learnerships, internships and apprenticeships in the various business sectors
Function of SETA
-Develop skills plans
-Promote and establish various learnerships
-Register various leadership and learning programmes
-Build skills development plans for the various economic sectors
Funding of SETA
-Funds received from rendering their service
-1% of their annual salaries as levy
-Surplus funds from government institutions
-Donations received from the public or businesses
Learnerships
-Theoretical or practical training opportunities that lead to a recognised occupational qualification
-It includes a training course with learning material as well as work experience
