Working together to decrease unemployment in Kwa-Zulu Natal

1. PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT SERVICES
Working together to decrease unemployment
in Kwa-Zulu Natal

2. PRESENTATION OUTLINE
TWO SECTIONS:
•SECTION A- EMPLOYMENT SERVICES
SOUTH AFRICA (ESSA)
•SECTIONS B- INTERNATIONAL CROSS
BOARDER LABOUR MIGRATION (ICLBM/
WORK PERMITS)

3. SECTION A: EMPLOYMENT SERVICES ACT 2014
• The new Employment Services Act , 2014 aims
to:
– Strengthen existing employment services
functions that remained within the Department
of Labour
– The Bill draws on a wealth of international
experience, challenges and seeks to assist
employers and job seekers to adjust to
changing economic situations.

4. MAIN FUNCTIONS OF THE PES
• The main functions of the Employment Service are
simply ‘to obtain vacancies’ and identify other
opportunities so as to facilitate the entry and re-
entry of job-seekers into the labour market.
• The provision of Public Employment Services
therefore has to be supported by two main
programmes: Job Seeker Services & Employer
Services

5. PES TARGET
1. Employers
• Public Sector
• Private Sector (large, small, medium)
• Parastatals
2. Job Seekers
• New entrants to the labour market
• Retrenchees & UIF clients
• People with disabilities
• Migrant workers – work permits
• Women
• Ex-offenders

6. WORKFLOW PROCESS FOR RECRUITMENT AND
PLACEMENT ( 7 Steps)
1. IDENTIFICATION OF OPPORTUNITIES
2. REGISTRATION OF OPPORTUNITY (via DoL & ESSA
Online)
3. SCREENING OF CANDIDATES
4. INTERVIEW PREPARATION
5. REFERRAL TO EMPLOYER
6. MANAGE PLACEMENT
7. REPORTING

7. DELIVERY OF JOB SEEKERS SERVICES
• Registration on ESSA
• Registration of employers
• Registration of job seekers
• Registration of available job opportunities
• Matching job seekers with registered job
opportunities
• Placement into work and skills development projects.
• Psychometric assessment to determine suitability for
opportunities.
• Career Guidance and information/job preparation
• Referral to skills development

8. DELIVERY OF EMPLOYER SERVICES
• Canvassing of vacancies and marketing PES
• Screening matched jobseekers before referral to
job opportunities
• Recommendation on foreign labour recruitment
• Registration of Private Employment Agencies
(PEA’s)
• Services to companies in distress including
Social Plan
• Advocacy services to use PES
• Active Labour Market Strategy

9. EMPLOYMENT SERVICES OF SOUTH AFRICA -
ESSA
• The Department of Labour has implemented a
system called Employment Services of South
Africa - ESSA
• ESSA will enable employers to register
themselves as an organisation (once off), but
more important their opportunities/vacancies
that become available within their business
environment such as :
– Formal jobs
– Learner ships
– Apprenticeships
– Internships

10. EMPLOYMENT SERVICES OF SOUTH AFRICA
– ESSA Cont
• Based on the given criteria for an opportunity,
ESSA can automatically match individuals who
meet the required criteria for an opportunity
• The Department of Labour can make the cv’s of
those individuals accessible to the employer.
• It remains the right of the employer to
choose/screen/interview the individuals matched
to suit the vacant opportunity
• As part of the service at ESSA, DoL keeps a
database of numerous unemployed as well as
employed candidates on the system

11. EMPLOYMENT SERVICES OF SOUTH
AFRICA – ESSA Cont
• ESSA database has people with different occupations,
qualifications and experience seeking employment
• What to expect from the DOL:
– Identification of candidates that meet the set criteria
– Compilation of CV
– Intervention before individuals are referred for
selection purpose (e.g. Career Counselling,
employment Counselling through Life Skills
Programmes)

12. EMPLOYMENT SERVICES OF SOUTH
AFRICA – ESSA Cont
 What we need from the employer :
 A detailed job description and job
specification
 Timeous feedback on placement done by
your company on placed individuals
 Feedback on performance of placed or
referred individuals
 Compliance with labour legislation (UIF)

13. HOW DOES THE SERVICE BENEFIT THE
EMPLOYER?
– The service is free of charge
– DoL do all the administration and recruitment
for the employers
– DoL is able to do psychometric assessments
upon request from the employer of the
required candidates (Note : This applies only
for learnership opportunities and candidates
recruited from our ESSA database)
– DoL makes its facilities available to the
employer for interviews and briefing sessions
– DoL provide after care service once the job
seeker has been placed.

14. HOW DOES THE SERVICE BENEFIT THE
EMPLOYER?
 Employers will have a quick and free access to a diverse pool of
suitably qualified work seekers. This will not only reduce the turn
around time for recruitment by employers, but will also result in
savings on the massive advertisement costs and improve
productivity.
 DoL ESSA services are percieved as priority employment solution,
this a renewed sense of destiny to the unemployed workseekers,
some of whome are on the brink of despair after period of
unsuccessful job-hunting endeavours due to poor access to the
labour market. Thus promoting corporate governance
responsibility.

15. SECTION B: INTERNATIONAL CROSS BOARDER
LABOUR MIGRATION
PURPOSE
•Globalisation- to enable the South African
economy to access scarce and critical skills
available elsewhere in the world in which local
competencies are inadequate;
•Protection stance- to protect the vulnerable
South African citizens against unfair competition
for scarce employment opportunities with the
foreign labour migrants; much needed by locals, in
which locals are equally competent to perform
skilfully.

16. ICBLM CHECKLIST
A1.DOCUMENTATION BY APPLICANT EMPLOYER
1.GENERAL(INDIVIDUAL) Work Visa (GWV) Application YES NO N/A
1.1Application form: Dept of Labour "Register an
opportunity/Organisation ESSA”
1.2.Work Visa Application Form
1.3.Labour Migrants ID Photo: The applicants portrait ID photo is
affixed to the work visa application form if labour migrant already
identified;
1.4.Job description of the vacancy applied for
1.5.SAQA certificate of Evaluation: If the applicant labour migrant
has academic qualification certificates acquired abroad, a SAQA
certification of evaluation duly signed by a competent SAQA
authority and indicating SA equivalent must be attached
1.6.’Powers of Attorney’ : Letter is attached if the employer is
represented by an agency in the application process(Employer)

17. ICBLM CHECKLIST...Cont
1.GENERAL(INDIVIDUAL) Work Visa (GWV) Application YES NO N/A
1.7.Contract of employment: A duly completed and signed contract of employment
document should be attached to the application package(Employer)
1.8.WorkPlace Skills Plan(WSP) submitted – for designated employer
1.9.Employment Equity Plan(EEP) submitted-for designated employer
1.10.Copy of Job advert (National Newspaper)
1.11.Copies of CV’s of candidates interviewed for the post(s)
1.12.Interview Notes: Selection interview notes by the employer indicating the
rationale for recruited local citizens not being suitable for the vacant post or
reasons for the locals not being considered at all.
1.13.Copies of existing visa(s) valid or expired: Copies of existing visa should be
attached to the work visa application

18. ICBLM CHECKLIST...Cont
1.GENERAL(INDIVIDUAL) Work Visa (GWV) Application YES NO N/A
A2.RS&R & IES REPORT BY DoL PO & LC
1.13.ESSA Database Labour Search Results: Total Matched ,referred and outcome.
1.14.NGO’s/CBO’s Report: Written evidence of labour search from Traditional
Leaders/Community Leaders/Ward councillors/Community based organization and
NGO’s
1.15.PEA’s Report: Written evidence of labour search from, at least, one private
recruitment agency,e.g.KELLY,PAG etc.
1.16.Sectoral Organizations/Professional Bodies Report:Wrtten evidence of labour
search from sectoral organizations/professional bodies(See list of examples on next
page)
1.17.IES Report: Indicating the inspection findings and compliance status

19. ICBLM CHECKLIST...Cont
B1.DOCUMENTATION BY APPLICANT EMPLOYER
2.Corporate(Group)Visa (Cr.V)Application YES NO N/A
2.1Application form: Dept of labour "Register an opportunity/Organisation ESSA”
2.2.Work Visa Application Form
2.3.Job Description(s) of the vacancies applied for the total numbers required per job
category e.g.one tractor driver and fifty fruit pickers, one rock blaster and hundred
workers or two land surveyors and twenty construction workers on the application
form.
2.4.SAQA certificate of Evaluation: If the applicant labour migrant has academic
qualification certificates acquired abroad, a SAQA certification of evaluation duly
signed by a competent SAQA authority and indicating SA equivalent must be attached
2.5.Salary benchmarking: Check what each category of labour will be paid for as per
contract of employment.
2.6.Contract of employment: A duly completed and signed contract of employment
document should be attached to the application package(Employer)

20. ICBLM CHECKLIST...Cont
2.Corporate(Group)Visa (Cr.V)Application YES NO N/A
2.7.WorkPlace Skills Plan(WSP) submitted – for designated employer
2.8.Employment Equity Plan(EEP) submitted-for designated employer
2.9’Powers of Attorney’ : Letter is attached if the employer is represented by an agency
in the application process(Employer)
2.10.Copy of Job advert (National Newspaper)
2.11.Copies of CV’s of candidates interviewed for the post(s)
2.12.Interview Notes: Selection interview notes by the employer indicating the rationale
for recruited local citizens not being suitable for the vacant post or reasons for the locals
not being considered at all.
2.13.Copies of existing visa(s) valid or expired: Copies of existing visa should be attached
to the work visa application

21. ICBLM CHECKLIST ....Cont
2.Corporate(Group)Visa (Cr.V)Application YES NO N/A
B2.RS&R & IES REPORT BY DoL PO & LC
2.14.ESSA Database Labour Search Results: Total Matched ,referred and outcome.
2.15.PEA’s Report: Written evidence of labour search from, at least, one private
recruitment agency,e.g.KELLY,PAG etc.
2.16.NGO’s/CBO’s Report: Written evidence of labour search from Traditional
Leaders/Community Leaders/Ward councillors/Community based organization and
NGO’s
2.17.Sectoral Organizations/Professional Bodies Report:Wrtten evidence of labour
search from sectoral organizations/professional bodies
2.18.IES Report: Indicating the inspection findings and compliance status

22. RESPONSIBLE OFFICIALS
• Responsible officail for ICBLM:
Brenda Mthembu
Assistant Director : Public Employment Services
Department of Labour KZN Provincial Office
Suite 802 Royal Hotel North Towers
267 Anton Lembede Street
Durban
Tel: 0313662005
Mobile: 0763183500

23. PRESENTER
• Sandile Mthimkhulu (Mr)
Durban Labour Centre
Public Employment Services
031-336 1755 / 082 348 0333

24. THANK YOU : THE END