Frequently Asked Questions
General Questions
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Our Compliance solutions span across the core legislation that businesses must comply with in South Africa - Employment Equity, Skills Development, POPI, and B-BBEE. We then provide innovative and new approaches to render these services and make compliance truly easy for companies with boxed solutions, consulting, and projects.
Our value lies in our custom approach – we help you in a way that makes financial and operational sense for your business. If you just need some documentation to make implementation easier, you can purchase it from us. If you need a quick forecast for your BEE compliance, we can give you a report, if you need more detailed assistance throughout the process of compliance, our experts can guide your implementation from start to finish.
We can also help you by providing benchmarks, to assess your current compliance across the legislation with an audit or evaluation and then give you recommendations for improving your compliance.
Yes! We specialize in benchmarking, which means our expert consultants come in, analyse, audit, and evaluate your current compliance. Then we can offer you guidance on how to best proceed considering what you already have in place and where you need to fill the gaps.
Business Compliance Questions
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The Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) No 4 of 2013 has the main objective being to provide conditions regarding the processing of personal information in a lawful manner for South African organisations. If your business uses or processes data from individuals and businesses, this legislation guides how the information must be processed throughout its lifetime.
If your company processes any personal information, you are required to be compliant with POPIA.
Personal information include but are not limited to salary information, contact details, race, gender, religion etc. Kindly note that non-compliance may lead to hefty penalties of up to R10 Million and/or prison sentence.
Most businesses and organisations are processing personal information – there is a very good chance that you absolutely must comply.
Do you employ more than 50 people?
Is your company’s turnover above the thresholds as set out in the Employment Equity Act No 55 of 1998?
Then yes, you have to submit your EE Reports because you are considered to be a “Designated Employer”.
Non-compliance when classified as a designated employer may lead to hefty penalties and fines.
According to the regulations issued under the Employment Equity Act No 55 of 1998, EEA reports must be submitted on or before 15 January annually. The Employment Equity online system is available for reporting to all designated employers from 1 September of each year. It is highly advised that designated employers submit their Employment Equity Reports timeously to avoid any system technical difficulties.
There is no difference. BEE (Black Economic Empowerment) is a policy designed by the South African Government to provide for equal opportunity through transformation with specific focus on previously disadvantaged groups. B-BBEE (Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment) refers to the implementation framework of the BEE policy.
The BEE Scorecard consists of five elements; Ownership, Management, Skills Development, Enterprise and Supplier Development, and Socio-Economic Development. Each of these elements contributes to the overall points achieved on the BEE Scorecard. Depending on the company’s annual turnover, the measured entity will either be classified as an Exempt Micro Enterprise (EME), Qualifying Small Enterprise (QSE) or a Large Enterprise. A further distinction will be drawn when determining the sector under which the measured entity will be scored under. Thus, the measured entity will either be scored using the generic scorecard or the sector based scorecard. So the scorecard you’re using is determined by your organisation’s variables and the score you achieve on the scorecard determines your BEE compliance level.
BEE compliance is not a legislative requirement for South African companies but it may grant you that competitive edge that you are looking for. This may realize through an array of business opportunities including tendering with Organs of Sate. Section 13G(2) of the Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment Act No 53 of 2003 states that all JSE listed companies must submit annual reports to the BEE Commission.
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