ESDA
- The National Skills Development Strategy was designed to support economic and employment growth as well as social development.
- It aims at transforming the labour force from a low skills base to one that is committed to life-long learning, to make the labour market more responsive and better able to cope with the consequences of poverty and disease and to improve the employability of the country's labour force..
- Skills Development Levies Act 1999 – 1% of payroll to be paid over to SARS.
- Tourism, Hospitality, Sport Education and Training.
- Authority (THETA)
- Scope of coverage includes:
– Hospitality industry
– Gaming and Lotteries
– Conservation and tourist guiding
– Tourism and travel service
– Sport recreation and fitness
- Providing leadership for education and training provision
- Promoting education and training for small, medium and macro enterprises (SMME’s)
- Collaborating with other SETA’s, training providers and appropriate local and international organisations
- Ensuring that high levels of quality education and training provision are maintained for the sector
- 100% from employer to SARS, National Skills Fund (NSF) and Department of Labour
- 80% to SETA – 70% from SETA to employer for: WSP / ATR
- Discretionary training grants – 10% SETA admin cost
- 20% to National Skills Fund
- Information and communications hub for the industry
- Employee data base
- Established training academy
- Consultations with government regarding the industry
- Supporting THETA with Sector Skills Plan
- “TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT STOP STAGNATION IN ITS TRACKS”
- WILLIAM. S. BURROUGS
- RASA “ONE VOICE UMBRELLA ORGANISATION”
- WENDY ALBERTS - CEO
- Consolidated workplace skills plan for all members
- Mandatory and discretionary grant applications on behalf of all members
- Employment equity plans on behalf of all members obliged to submit same
- HIV/AIDS policies and training
- Employment and Skills Development Agency
- (ESDA) funding for training interventions in addition to THETA funding
DoL ESDA Different projects (such as NVC) Accredited Training providers
- The ESDA is involved in a number of projects.
- The ESDA supplies the Department of Labour (DoL) with information with regards to which training is needed in which programme.
- The DoL then provides the ESDA with funding.
- The ESDA then appoints an accredited training provider to conduct the training.
- ESDAs were introduced by the Skills Development Act and were mainly established to assist smaller employers (SMME) who were interested in taking learners into a learnership/skills programme, but who lacked the capacity and/or resources to perform all the duties required in terms of
the agreement.
Background
In February 2001 the Minister of Labour M.M.S. Mdladlana launched the National Skills Development Strategy (NSDS). The NSDS was developed in terms of the Skills Development Act and the Skills Development Levies Act. A key component of the Skills Development Act has been the introduction of learnerships. The Act provides the legislative basis for learnerships; and is supported by regulations.
What is an ESDA?
An Employment and Skills Development Agency (ESDA) is an organisation or company that, through written agreement with an employer, employs learners and manages the placement of the learners with host employers for on the job training and assessment and approved training institutions for off the job training to complete a regulated training program a learnership or apprenticeship.
Agathos is one of four ESDA’s in the Western Cape.
What are the duties and Responsibilities of an ESDA?
An ESDA has multiple functions
• Assist South Africa to meet the National Skills Development Strategy
• Assist learners
• Assist government institutions and companies
• Assist SETAs
• Assist in creating jobs
What is the Role of an ESDA?
The ESDA scheme, sometimes called Group Training, is an employment and skills development initiative designed to:Create additional Learnership opportunities;
• Provide for continuity of learning for learners across different workplaces through to the completion of their Learnership Agreement
• Improve the quality and breadth of training available to learners, particularly in small, micro and medium enterprises (SMME’s)
• The Department of Labour will therefore, over the next three years, be piloting the ESDAs in selected organisations an integral part of the government's plans for increased participation in skills development, employment and economic growth
This initiative is supported by the Department of Labour and the Australian Agency for International Development funded South African Vocational Education and Training (AusAID - SAVET) Programme.
How does an ESDA Operate?
An Employment and Skills Development Agency (ESDA) is a company that employs learners and managers the placement of the learners with host employers for on-the-job-training and components of the learnership. The hosts are usually SMMEs and approved training institutions for off-the-job-training to complete a Learnership.
An ESDA is an independent and separately incorporated, non-profit organisation conducted on a commercial basis. An ESDA provides a means for the employment and training of special groups within the labour market and provide a service for employers that do not have the capacity to manage their own learnership but who are nonetheless committed to recognised, high quality training.
Legislation governing an ESDA
Generally, the duties and responsibilities of an ESDA cover a wide range of obligations in terms of the various labour legislation:
– Skills Development Act
– Basic Conditions of Employment Act
– Employment Equity Act
– Labour Relations Act
– Occupational Health and Safety Act
– And other relevant pieces of legislation.
In addition to the above ESDA's are by legislation, preffered suppliers to Government, Muncipalities, SETA's and Industry
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