Overview

The objective of this workshop is to give an overview of the Employment Equity Act. Upon completion
of the course, the candidate will able to demonstrate an understanding of the Employment Equity Act,
a company’s employment equity plan, Department of Labour requirements; and the relationships
between business strategy, employment equity and organisational transformation and change
management and implement an employment equity plan..

Course Outline

The programme has 5 modules, modules listed below:
1. Overview of the Employment Equity Act
• Understanding the Employment Equity Act
• Purpose, interpretation and application of Employment Equity legislation

2. Prohibition of unfair discrimination
• Understanding unfair discrimination
• Differentiation
• Discrimination
• Unfair discrimination
• Direct and indirect discrimination
• Grounds of discrimination
• Employment applicants, work analysis and inherent requirements of the job/ job descriptions
• Recruitment and selection
• How the Employment Equity Legislation attempts to eliminate and prohibit unfair discrimination
Medical & Psychological assessments

3. Employment Equity and Affirmative action
• Understanding Affirmative Action
• The Equality Test (Section 9(2) of the Constitution
• Understanding Black Empowerment
• The duties of designated employers and voluntary compliance

• The requirements of disclosure of information
• Employment Equity Plans and the requirements for keeping records

4. The Employment Equity Committee/ Roles and functions
• Roles, responsibilities and functions of the Employment Equity Committee
• Monitoring Employment Policies, Procedures & Practices
• Monitoring /Evaluating Implementation of EE Plan
• Consultation
• Identifying of EE Barriers
• Developing EE Measures
• Benchmarking Best Practices
• Frequency and content of Committee Meetings

5. Practical analysis of disciplinary codes, policies, EE plans and EE reports

TYPE OF PROGRAMME
• Skills programme

METHOD
• Online
• Face to Face

DURATION
• 2 Days

ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS
• Learner must be able to read and write

LEARNER MATERIAL
• All learning material included in tuition fee.

PRICING
• Enquire at Eskilz College for pricing structure

CERTIFICATION
• On successful completion of course, the learner will receive a certificate of attendance.

DISCLAIMER
The information provided may vary or change at the discretion of Eskilz College. Eskilz College will
formally notify learners of any changes or variations.