The Impact of Legislation on businesses 💕

Question 1

The Skills Development Act :

What are its role and aim ?

Answer 1

Role - is ensuring that South Africans workforce is SKILLED and contributes to the PRODUCTIVITY and ECONOMIC GROWTH of the country!

Aim - enables more South Africans to gain access to skills, training opportunities that have long term benefits for population and society!

Question 2

The Skills Development Act :

Explain the PURPOSE of the Skills Development Act ?

Answer 2

• Develops the skills of South Africans in order to improve PRODUCTIVITY in the workplace.
• Encourages businesses to improve the skills of NEW and EXISTING workers.
• INVESTS in the EDUCATION and TRAINING
  of the South African workforce.

-Improves the JOB PROPECTS of previously disadvantaged people

Question 3

The Skills Development Act :

Explain how the SDA impacts bussinesses?

-Positives
-Negatives

Answer 3

Positives

-Increases number of skilled employees with scares skills

-Increases global competitiveness of South African businesses as more employees are trained with upgraded, relevant and scares skills.

-Improves return on investment (ROI) in education and training.

Negatives

• Implementation of SDA is time-consuming, expensive, prescriptive and administratively burdensome.

-Bussinesses find it difficult to monitor/control the implantation of this Act

Question 4

Skills development Act :

Describe actions that are regarded as non compliance by the SDA ?

Answer 4

-Preventing qualified employees from gaining access to the train ging opportunities (e.g) Trained teacher to advance their education.

-Promoting skills development unfairly (e.g) where only certain employees benefit

-Providing incorrect and irrelevant information to employees about a learnerships to deliberately mislead employees.

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Question 5

Skills Development Act :

What are the penalties/consequences for non compliance with SDA ?

Answer 5

• Businesses would do not comply with SDA will get a compliance order. The order forces businesses to comply with SDA.
• Businesses that do not pay SDL may not offer leaner ships to employees or claim grants from SDA.

-If a business is found of guilty of illegal practices, a labor inspector may indefinitely stop the operations of the bussiness.

Question 6

Skills Development Act :

Describe ways in which businesses can comply with the SDA ? :

Answer 6

• Display a summary of the SDA in the bussiness where it is visible to all employees
• Provide all opportunities to all employees to improve their skills
• Employees who collect PAYE should register with SETA.
• Employers should submit a workplace skills plan and provide evidence that is was implemented.

Question 7

Skills Development Act :

Outline the roles and functions of SETA ?

SETA = is a vocational skills training organization in SA that identifies/outlines/manages and creates leanerships, internships and apprenticeship in the various bussiness sectors

Answer 7

• Is to register various learners sips and training pragrammes
• Promote and establish various learnerships
• Develop skills plans that are in this with the aims the National skills Development Strategy (NSDS)
• Develop skills development plans for the various economic sectors

Question 8

Skills Development Act

What are some ways of funding for SETA ? :

Answer 8

• From surplus funds from government institutions
• Funds received from rendering their services
• Donations/Grants received from the public/bussiness/ CSI programmes

Question 9

Skills Development Act :

What is the National Skills Development strategy + Human Resources Development strategy?

Answer 9

• NSD aims to develop skills, improve education, support and provide training to the South African workforce, improve economic growth , alleviate property and reduce unemployment

Question 10

Skills Development Act

Explanation of the National Skills Development Strategy ? :

Answer 10

• Increases access to programs that trains people
• Build career/vactional/ training centers
• Improves social development through economic development
• Increases the skills of public sector to improve services delivery

Question 11

Skills Development Act

Explain the Human Resources Development strategy :

Answer 11

• Improves the supply of skills, which benefits the country directly
• Promotes social development/ social Justice and helps reduce poverty
• Address’s skills shortage in South African workplace
• Develops both short-term and long term workforce skills
• Increases/encourages employee participation in lifelong learning

Question 12

Labour Relations Act :

Outline purpose of LRA?

Answer 12

• Promotes fair labour practices between employers and employees
• Established CCMA (Commission for conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration, labour Court and Labour Appeal Court)

Question 13

Labour Relations Act :

Discuss the impact of the LRA on bussiness ? :

-Advantages
-Disadvantages

Answer 13

Advantages :

• Promotes quick and less expensive labour disputes resolution
• Protect the rights of the bussinesses and employer organizations in Labour-related issues.

Disadvantages

• The LRA may reduce the global competitiveness of bussiness due to lower workplace.
• Decrease profitability of the bussiness due to decline productivity and sales.
• Implementation of LRA may be expensive and time consuming, in the dispute resolution process.

Question 14

Labour Relations Act :

What actions are regarded as non-compliance on LRA :

Answer 14

• Dismissing employees unfairly or illegally
• Preventing employees from forming and joining trade unions
• Preventing employees from participating in legal strikes
• Forcing employees to give up their trade Union membership/representation

Question 15

Penalties/consequences for non-compliance on LRA ?

Answer 15

• Bussinesss that do no comply with LRA may receive a compliance order from LC that forces the bussiness to comply.

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