Department of Labour

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Department of Labour

• Work programme for 2003

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15 point programme

• Guides our work in this five year period
• 15 points are
• Policies developed by Department seek to achieve
  an appropriate balance between security and
  flexibility
• Employment creation
• Implementation of Presidential Job Summit
  resolutions
• Implementation of skills development strategy

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15 point programme continued

• Employment equity
• Protection of vulnerable workers
• Occupational health and safety
• An adequate social safety net
• Promoting stable labour relations
• Productivity
• Social partnerships
• International relations
• Monitoring impact of policy
• Institutional restructuring
• Legislative amendments

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Strategic Objectives

• Monitor and review labour market policies on an
  ongoing basis
• Advance Employment and Skills development
• Promote Employment equity
• Protection of vulnerable workers

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Strategic Objectives (cont)

• Provide Social Safety Net
• Promote Occupational Health and Safety
• Promote Stable Labour Relations

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1. Monitor and Review Labour Market Policies

• Conduct research on
• Co-operatives and employment creation
• Atypical forms of employment

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2. Skills development

• Accelerate delivery of and access to learnerships
  by 50 000 unemployed young people  
• Plan, implement, monitor, support and evaluate
  the achievement of the 2004/5 National Skills
  Development Strategy (NSDS) targets, including
  Equity Targets (85 black, 54 women and 4
  people with disabilities
• NSDS quarterly and annual monitoring reports
  prepared, discussed and used to intervene
  appropriately
• NSDS impact studies conducted

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2. Skills development (Cont)

• Commence consultation to determine priorities for
  2005/9 National Skills Development Strategy
• NSA advises Minister of Labour on process whereby
  new 2005-9 NSDS strategic objectives and targets
  are to be determined
• Support skills development initiatives from the
  National Skills Fund
• Spend NSF to support the achievement of NSDS
• Support achievement of the NSDS equity targets
• Implement strategies for SMME, informal and
  co-operatives sectors with other departments 
• Integrate skills development with Provincial and
  local initiatives to promote employment creation

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2. Skills development (Cont2)

• SETAs achieve targets for 2003/4
• Support SETAs to achieve 2003/4 performance
  targets as per MOU entered into with the DoL
• Support SETAs who do not achieve the targets,
  where appropriate and where required, take
  appropriate disciplinary action
• Train 164 763 people via the strategic project
  fund
• SETAs have all agreed to train a target of 15 of
  workers in their sectors

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3. Employment equity

• Strengthen enforcement mechanisms
• Improved procedural equity compliance achieved
• Progress in substantive equity compliance
  monitored
• Encouraging compliance through showcasing of best
  practice
• Analysis of income differentials
• Prepare report on income differentials

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Employment equity (cont)

• Publish guidelines to assist implementation of
  Codes of Good Practice
• Amend regulations to ensure appropriate data
  collection

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4. Protection of Vulnerable workers

• Implement and enforce legislation and sectoral
  determinations
• Educate and enforce domestic and farm workers
  sectoral determinations
• New sectoral determinations in
• Forestry, minibus taxi, glass and glassware,
  fishing, clothing and knitting, civil engineering
• Inspections carried out in terms of the IES
  Strategy
• Support Home Affairs to implement Immigration Act
  in respect of migrant workers in particular

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4. Vulnerable workers (cont)

• Finalize and implement policy on the eradication
  of child labour
• National programme of action to eradicate child
  labour developed

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5. Occupational health and safety

• Targeted advocacy and enforcement strategy, which
  is sector and issue specific.
• Increase number of inspections 
• Embark on joint campaigns in high risk sectors,
• Promote compliance.
• Increase awareness
• Support health and safety structures to assist
  industry to ensure effective OHS implementation.

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5. Occupational health and safety

• Promote OHS accord in provinces
• OHS accord signed and implemented by all
  Provinces  
• Integrate OHS competencies across government
• Identify and address subtle causes of
  occupational diseases
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6. Improved social safety net Unemployment
Insurance

• Strengthen administrative and financial
  management capacity of the UI Fund
• Implement the fraud reduction strategy
• Develop and implement enforcement and revenue
  collection strategy for categories of workers
  that were formerly excluded from Act
• domestic workers
• Improve financial viability of the Fund
• Improve service delivery

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6. Improved social safety net Compensation Fund

• Improve service delivery
• Improved claims processing
• Decentralisation of claims enquiries to
  Provincial offices.
• Automation of the FYI IT system to process claims
  in alignment with PPP
• Improved revenue collection and fraud detection.

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7. Promoting stable labour relations

• Develop and implement advocacy strategy for small
  business
• Ensure bargaining councils take concerns of small
  business on board
• Efficient registration of labour organizations
  and deregister non bona-fide unions and employers
  organizations

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7. Promoting stable labour relations (cont)

• Oversee and assist in respect of overall
  governance of CCMA including Essential Services
  Committee
• Monitoring of strikes and labour market events.
• Reduction in workplace conflict and industrial
  unrest
• Promote social dialogue through existing
  institutions
• Facilitate and support transformation of
  bargaining councils.
• Facilitate establishment of new councils and
  amalgamation of councils

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8. Productivity (DoL NPI)

• Assist with establishment of company Future
  Forums
• Assist with redeployment / turnaround strategies
  in companies and sectors
• Promote productivity best practices
• Build the productive capacity of intermediary
  bodies
• Support government-led strategic initiatives that
  impact on productivity and job retention /
  creation

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9. Social partnerships

• Ongoing support to and strengthening of CCMA,
  NSA, ECC, CEE etc
• Optimal utilization of Strengthening Civil
  Society Fund
• Financial security for Ditsela (trade union
  education institute)
• Effectively engagement in NEDLAC, NSA and other
  statutory bodies

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10. International relations

• Promote SAs interests and NEPAD in the ILO and
  other multilateral forums
• Fulfill SAs international obligations to the
  ILO, SADC, AU ARLAC
• Participation in restructuring of OAU/AU and
  SADC, to ensure promotion of NEPAD and other
  government objectives
• Coordinate and monitor bilateral and technical
  cooperation arrangements

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11. Institutional transformation

• Implement Public Private Partnership (IT)
  contract
• Finalise demarcation and upgrading of labour
  centres
• Achieve Investors in People standard
• 500 learners enrolled in e degree training
• 327 in their 2nd year
• 173 in their 1st year

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11. Institutional transformation ...

• Institute Core Management Competencies
• Setting key performance standards to indicate
  achievement of key performance areas in the
  following functional areas
• people management
• financial management
• Knowledge management
• client oriented and customer focus
• service delivery

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12. Legislative amendments

• Possible amendments including regulations to
  assist the smooth implementation, application and
  interpretation of certain provisions of the
  following Acts are being considered
• Skills Development Act
• Unemployment Insurance Act
• Basic Conditions of Employment Act