Employment Equity workshops will be virtual for second consecutive year

Ronda Naidu 19 August 2021

Participants will be limited due to capacity of the online platform.

The 2021 Employment Equity workshops will be conducted virtually by the Department of Employment and Labour’s Employment Equity (EE) Directorate and Inspection and Enforcement Services (IES).

For the second year in succession, due to the impact of Covid-19 in the country and the world, the department will host its annual employment equity workshops in each of the nine provinces under the theme “Real transformation makes business sense”.

The virtual EE workshops will start on 1 September until 28 September 2021. The first workshop will target stakeholders in Limpopo and the workshops will conclude with stakeholders in Mpumalanga. The workshops will be held from 10am to 1pm.

This year’s workshops will cover: 　

Respective provincial EE status,
Update on EE Amendments and EE Sector targets,
How to access copies of the EEA2 Online by completing EEA11 form, including 2021 EE reporting, and
EE inspections and enforcement in the labour market.

The virtual EE workshops are targeted at employers and their employers’ organisations, human resources executives and practitioners, EE forum members, assigned senior managers/transformation managers, academics, employees and trade unions, labour relations practitioners, and civil society organisations, among others.

The department will send an invitation to each province in order for the stakeholders to access the meeting link ahead of the actual workshop.

Participants will be limited to 250 per session and will be on a first come, first served basis due to the limited capacity of the online platform.

The schedule of the planned virtual workshops is as follows:

Limpopo: 1 September 2021
Free State: 2 September 2021
KwaZulu-Natal: 7 September 2021
Eastern Cape: 8 September 2021
Western Cape: 14 September 2021
Gauteng: 15 September 2021
Northern Cape: 21 September 2021
North West: 22 September 2021
Mpumalanga: 28 September 2021

Ronda Naidu

Ronda Naidu is the head of content at CHRO, CIO and CFO South Africa. She holds a Masters in Corporate Journalism and earned her journalistic stripes at a number of the top privately owned media companies, across the print and online platforms, in South Africa. She has been recognised as a leading strategic communications professional in the country, having headed a number of communication functions across the financial, mining, engineering and agricultural industries.

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