Introduction to EE and Skills Development

South Africa uses two big tools to build a fairer, more skilled workforce: employment equity, which removes unfair discrimination and helps people from designated groups get fair access to jobs and promotion, and skills development, which funds and organises training through the skills levy, SETAs and programmes such as learnerships. Both create important work for HR administrators: collecting accurate information, keeping training records, preparing reports and meeting strict deadlines. This course explains the purpose of the Employment Equity Act and its 2025 changes, designated groups and employers, the employment equity plan, sectoral targets and annual reports. It then explains the skills development system: the Skills Development Levy, SETAs and grants, the Workplace Skills Plan and Annual Training Report, learnerships, apprenticeships, internships and the records that support them. The course is fully online and self-paced. Each lesson has a short activity in your workbook. You finish with a practical task and a final assessment, and you receive a MetaCo Certificate of Completion that you can add to your CV.