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Employment Equity Act – is your company compliant?

Pay Solutions not only offer Payroll Services, they offer comprehensive Human Resource Solutions in accordance to government legislation. Recent changes to the Employment Equity Act require increase reporting for designated Employers making submissions an onerous task.

Pay Solutions will take care of your Employment Equity Reporting and submissions ensuring your company is compliant and does not receive a non-compliance fine.

Human Resource, Employment Equity Act

Amendments to the Employment Equity Act, No 55 of 1998 (EEA) came into operation on 1 August 2014.

Read the guidelines below to determine if your company is a designated Employer.

The Employment Equity Act applies to all employers, workers and job applicants, but not members of the –
  • National Defence Force;
  • National Intelligence Agency; and
  • South African Secret Service.

The provisions for affirmative action apply to –

  • employers with 50 or more workers, or whose annual income is more than the amount specified in Schedule 4 of the Act (table below);
  • municipalities;
  • organs of State;
  • employers ordered to comply by a bargaining council agreement;
  • any employers who volunteer to comply.

All employers who employ more than fifty employees, or have an annual turnover higher than the amount identified in Schedule 4, are required to submit the report annually.

EMPLOYMENT EQUITY ACT SCHEDULE 4
TURNOVER THRESHOLD APPLICABLE TO DESIGNATED EMPLOYERS

Sector or subsectors in accordance with the Standard Industrial Classification Total annual turnover
AGRICULTURE R6,00m
MINING AND QUARRYING R22,50m
MANUFACTURING R30,00m
ELECTRICITY, GAS AND WATER R30,00m
CONSTRUCTION R15,00m
RETAIL AND MOTOR TRACDE AND REPAIR SERVICES R45,00m
WHOLESALE TRADE, COMMERCIAL AGENTS AND ALLIED SERVICES R75,00m
CATERING, ACCOMMODATION AND OTHER TRADE R15,00m
TRANSPORT, STORAGE AND COMMUNICATIONS R30,00m
FINANCE AND BUSINESS SERVICES R30,00m
COMMUNITY, SOCIAL AND PERSONAL SERVICES R15,00m

Click here to find out more on the Employment Equity Act

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