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Fasset Presentation. Complying with Changes in Legislation 2009. October 2009. Seta Landscape. DoL has not released notification regarding the future Seta landscape Once the notice is gazetted there will be a public comment phase, which will include public hearings

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  1. Fasset Presentation Complying with Changes in Legislation 2009 October 2009

  2. Seta Landscape • DoL has not released notification regarding the future Seta landscape • Once the notice is gazetted there will be a public comment phase, which will include public hearings • Fasset Board preference to maintain status quo • Move from Department of Labour to Department of Higher Education and Training due to take place by November 2009 2

  3. Skills Levy Grant Cycle 100% Paid to SARS Allocated to relevant Seta 20% 80% National Skills Fund Department of Labour 70% Available for Grants 10% Unclaimed SDL goes into discretionary projects decided by the Management Board Seta Admin 20% 50% Strategic Cash Grant 31 March Mandatory Grant 30 June Unclaimed SDL 3

  4. Funding areas for 2010/11 • Lifelong Learning • Learnership Cash Grant (LCG) • SMME Grant • Development Projects • Strategic Cash Grant (SCG) • Fasset Skills Advisors (limited service) • General Research • Numeracy and literacy research • ABET (still funded via the SCG) • Assessor and moderator training • Tax learnership • Financial markets learnership 4

  5. LCG 2009/2010 due 31 March 2010 • Learnership Cash Grant • Commencement period 1 Jan to 31 Dec 2009 • Firm must employ fewer than 150 • Extension requests to Fasset on or before 31 Mar 2010 • Grant due 31 March 2010 • Higher amount for people with disabilities – R27,000 vs. R47,250 for 3-year programme 5

  6. Tax Amendment Bill • Released for public comment • Documents on www.treasury.gov.za • Substantial positive changes regarding the learnership tax allowance • Increase in allowance for multi-year learnerships • Forward your comments directly to Treasury and/or work with your professional body 6

  7. Scarce Skills • Address scarce skills • People needed to fill job vacancies • Tertiary education • Black and/or disabled graduates • Finance and accounting • Predominantly small firms • Refer to 2009/2010 Scarce Skills Guide 7

  8. Free Lifelong Learning 2009/10 • Register on www.fasset.org.za 8

  9. Fasset Annual Report and AGM • Fasset recognised by DoL (2008 National Skills Conference) as SA’s top performing Seta • 3 436 learners were registered in this year – total learners registered since 2000 = 31 219 • 15 862 learners have completed and placed in employment • LL remains a flagship initiative with 41 686 delegates attending LL since 2000 9

  10. Fasset Best Practice Awards • Large employer finalists • Deloitte • Ernst and Young • Winner: Ernst and Young 10

  11. Development Projects • To address shortage of professionals in sector • Funds training of learners in workplace readiness skills – which includes both soft skills and technical financial skills • Learners are black and/or disabled • Once employed by the company may be put forward for a Learnership Cash Grant (LCG) 11

  12. Bonani Workplace Readiness • Black unemployed finance graduates with B.Comm degrees or National Diplomas • Offered in Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Free Sate and the Western Cape • Intensive 5 month Workplace Readiness Programme (WRP) including training in a ‘virtual office’ environment • Contact Waldo Jonker (011) 466-3312 • www.fasset.org.za for more details 12

  13. Scimathus Work Readiness • Assist black learners to access higher education in the Economic and Management Sciences • Offered in the Western Cape • Content includes academic language, study and thinking skills, computer literacy and statistics • Contact Anneke Muller (021) 808-3483 • www.fasset.org.za for more details 13

  14. Pagamani Workplace Readiness • Unemployed matriculants or incomplete qualifications to attain certificate from the AAT • Candidates receive work-readiness training • Learnership is designed to be completed within a year whilst working and studying • Offered in Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Free State and the Western Cape • Contact Waldo Jonker (011) 466-3312 • www.fasset.org.za for more details 14

  15. Thusanani Workplace Readiness • Black unemployed graduates in Gauteng with various qualifications • Mentorship offered for at least 6 months after the intervention • Intensive 3 month Workplace Readiness Programme (theoretical and practical) • Contact Avril Peddie (011) 678-2144 • www.fasset.org.za for more details 15

  16. Thank You Fasset Call Centre 086 101 0001 www.fasset.org.za 16

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