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Employed learnerships - a silver bullet for your skills development spend!

15 September 2022

For most businesses the skills development element is not only a big headache but one of the most costly components... of their BEE scorecard. An option to reduce some of this cost is employed learnerships, but some key success factors should be kept in mind.

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How to maximise your training for BEE recognition

19 May 2022

The various types of skills training available in South Africa and the corresponding BEE recognition it provides, has become very... technical, resulting in many businesses finding it difficult to decide on and implement the appropriate training programmes to achieve their desired training and BEE goals. Here we discuss and simplify the most prevalent types of training in South Africa and also address BEE recognition applicable to the different types of training.

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Can you claim ETI for students?

12 October 2021

In a recent conversation with our accountant, I was informed that SARS will no longer permit claims of Employment Tax... Incentive (ETI) tax benefits for students. We have been considering placing some of our workers on learnerships and possibly also claiming ETI for them, but we are concerned as to whether this would still be possible. Do you have any clarification as to what the position now is?

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The benefits of learnerships for your business

20 May 2021

I have been informed by a colleague that I may need to look at implementing learnerships to improve the BEE... level of my company. How do learnerships work and can they really provide such a benefit?

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Skills Development remains a vital aspect in your BEE planning

16 April 2021

Our company falls under the Generic BEE Codes. As we are 51% Black-owned but under R50 million turnover we have... not undergone BEE verification but relied on a signed BEE affidavit confirming that we are an automatic level 2 B-BBEE contributor. Now it appears we may exceed the R50 million mark this year and have to verify as a Generic Enterprise. As HR manager I have now been tasked with getting our skills development planning in place should we need to verify. Where do I start?

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New BEE amendments allow you to recognise bursaries for your BEE Scorecard

13 September 2019

I understand that recent BEE amendments now make provision for bursaries to be recognised under skills development. Our company has... a bursary programme through which we give two bursaries a year to students. We haven’t in the past been able to recognise these bursaries for skills development purposes. It sounds like this may have changed now? Will we now be able to?

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