VOTE 17: LABOUR

1. VOTE 17: LABOUR PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE PRESENTATION MARCH 2003 DIRECTOR-GENERAL: ADV. RAMS RAMASHIA

2. CONTENTS MISSION STATEMENT 15 POINT PROGRAMME STRATEGIC PLAN LEGISLATION STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES MAIN DIVISIONS BUDGET

3. 1. MISSION STATEMENT

4. MISSION STATEMENT The Department of Labour will play a significant role in reducing unemployment, poverty and inequality through a set of policies and programmes developed in consultation with social partners, which are aimed at:

5. Improved economic efficiency and productivity • Skills development and employment creation • Sound labour relations • Eliminating inequality and discrimination in the workplace • Alleviating poverty in employment

6. 15 POINT PLAN

7. 15 POINT PROGRAMME • Guides our work in this five year period • 15 points are: • Policies developed by Department seek to achieve an appropriate balance between security and flexibility • Employment creation • Implementation of Presidential Job Summit resolutions • Implementation of skills development strategy

8. 15 POINT PROGRAMME (cont) • Employment equity • Protection of vulnerable workers • Occupational health and safety • An adequate social safety net • Promoting stable labour relations • Productivity • Social partnerships • International relations • Monitoring impact of policy • Institutional restructuring • Legislative amendments

9. STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES

10. STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES • Monitor and review labour market policies on an ongoing basis • Advance Employment and Skills development • Promote Employment equity • Protection of vulnerable workers

11. STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES (cont) • Provide Social Safety Net • Promote Occupational Health and Safety • Promote Stable Labour Relations

12. LEGISLATION

13. LEGISLATION The following legislation enables the Department to achieve its mission: • Basic Conditions of Employment Act • Labour Relations Act • Employment Equity Act • Skills Development Act • Skills Development Levies Act • Occupational Health and Safety Act • Unemployment Insurance Act • Compensation for Occupational Injuries and Diseases Act

14. STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES

15. 1. Monitor and Review Labour Market Policies • Conduct research on: • Co-operatives and employment creation • Atypical forms of employment

16. 2. Skills development • Accelerate delivery of and access to learnerships by 50 000 unemployed young people • Plan, implement, monitor, support and evaluate the achievement of the 2004/5 National Skills Development Strategy (NSDS) targets, including Equity Targets (85% black, 54% women and 4% people with disabilities

17. 2. Skills development (Cont…) • NSDS impact studies conducted

18. 2. Skills development (Cont…2) • Support skills development initiatives from the National Skills Fund • Spend NSF to support the achievement of NSDS • Implement strategies for SMME, informal and co-operatives sectors with other departments  • Integrate skills development with Provincial and local initiatives to promote employment creation

19. 2. Skills development (Cont…3) • SETAs achieve targets for 2003/4 • Support SETAs to achieve 2003/4 performance targets as per MOU entered into with the DoL • Support SETAs who do not achieve the targets, where appropriate and where required, take appropriate disciplinary action • Train 164 763 people via the strategic project fund

20. 3. Employment equity • Strengthen enforcement mechanisms • Improved procedural equity compliance achieved • Progress in substantive equity compliance monitored • Encouraging compliance through showcasing of best practice • Analysis of income differentials • Prepare report on income differentials

21. Employment equity (cont…) • Publish guidelines to assist implementation of Codes of Good Practice • HIV/ AIDS • Disability • Amend regulations to ensure appropriate data collection

22. 4. Protection of Vulnerable workers • Implement and enforce legislation and sectoral determinations • Educate and enforce domestic and farm workers sectoral determinations • Investigate working conditions in the following sectors : Forestry, minibus taxi, glass and glassware, fishing, clothing and knitting, civil engineering • Consolidate the Department’s Inspection and Enforcement strategy

23. 4. Vulnerable workers (cont…) • Support Home Affairs to implementImmigration Act in respect of migrant workers in particular

24. 4. Vulnerable workers (cont…) • Finalize and implement national policy on the eradication of child labour

25. 5. Occupational health and safety • Targeted advocacy and enforcement strategy, which is sector and issue specific. • Increase number of inspections. • Embark on joint campaigns in high risk sectors, • Promote compliance. • Increase awareness. • Support health and safety structures to assist industry to ensure effective OHS implementation.

26. 5. Occupational health and safety (cont…) • Promote OHS accord in provinces • OHS accord signed and implemented by all provinces • Finalise the development of policy to integrate OHS competencies across government • Identify and address subtle causes of occupational diseases

27. 6. Improved social safety net: Unemployment Insurance • Strengthen administrative and financial management capacity of the UI Fund • Implement the fraud reduction strategy • Develop and implement enforcement and revenue collection strategy for categories of workers that were formerly excluded from Act • domestic workers

28. 6. Improved social safety net: Unemployment Insurance (cont…) • Improve financial viability of the Fund • Improve service delivery

29. 6. Improved social safety net: Compensation Fund • Improve service delivery: • Improved claims processing • Decentralisation of claims enquiries to Provincial offices. • Automation of the FYI IT system to process claims in alignment with PPP • Improved revenue collection and fraud detection.

30. 7. Promoting stable labour relations • Develop and implement advocacy strategy for small business • Ensure bargaining councils take concerns of small business on board • Efficient registration of labour organizations and deregister non bona-fide unions and employers organizations

31. 7. Promoting stable labour relations (cont…) • Oversee and assist in respect of overall governance of CCMA including Essential Services Committee • Monitoring of strikes and labour market trends and events. • Reduction in workplace conflict and industrial unrest

32. 7. Promoting stable labour relations (cont…2) • Promote social dialogue • Facilitate and support transformation of bargaining councils. • Facilitate establishment of new councils and amalgamation of councils.

33. MAIN DIVISIONS OF THE VOTE

34. MAIN DIVISIONS OF THE VOTE • Administration • Occupational Health and Safety of Persons • Social Insurance • Employment and Skills Development Services • Labour Relations • Labour Policy • Service Delivery • Auxiliary and Associated Services

35. BUDGET 2003/2004 As contained in the Estimate of National Expenditure (ENE)

36. MTEF ALLOCATIONS R, 000 MIL TOTAL DoL UIF 02/03 R1,296 R0,976 R0,320 03/04 R1,291 R1,041 R0,250 04/05 R1,292 R1,142 R0,150 05/06 R1,218 R1,218 R0,000 R, mil -0,3% 0,0% -5,7% DoL UIF VOTED ESTIMATE

37. BUDGET PER PROGRAMME

38. BUDGET PER PROGRAMME VOTE: 03/04 PROG R’mil % ADMIN 210,8 16,3 OHS 26,5 2,0 SI 19,7 1,5 ESDS 175.0 13,6 L R 185,5 14,4 L P 27,8 2,2 S D 373,8 28,9 AUX 21,9 1,7 S-TOTAL 1041,0 UIF 250,0 19,4 TOTAL 1,291,0100,0 R, mil

39. MTEF PER PROGRAMME

40. BUDGET PER STANDARD ITEM

41. BUDGET PER STANDARD ITEM VOTE: 03/04 S ITEM R’mil % PERS 371,9 28,8 ADMIN 149,5 11,6 INVENT 27,7 2,1 EQUIP 42,0 3,3 LAND 66,7 5,2 PROF 99,8 7,7 TRANS 269,9 20,9 MISC 13,5 1,0 S-Total 1041,0 UIF 250,0 19,4 TOTAL 1,291,0 100,0 R, mil

42. TRANSFER PAYMENTS Year R’mil DoL UIF 99/00 441,9 00/01 285,6 01/02 251,3 605,0 02/03 257,9 320,0 03/04 269,9 250,0 R, mil DoL UIF

43. THANK YOU