Tag: Integration of Employment Equity

Pleading pay discrimination: More than mere differentiation

 Essence Pleading pay discrimination: Amended statement of claim clearly setting out the basis for alleging [unfair] discrimination on arbitrary grounds relating to unequal pay.  Decision United National Transport Union obo...

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Value-exchange: Pay for making challenging decisions

When paying someone for work a value-exchange is needed.  Challenging decisions must be properly rewarded but coupled with appropriate accountability. So the reference to “occupational levels” in schedule EEA9 to the Employment...

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Entry-level: Stem losses create decent jobs

An entry-level is critical to job creation.  In previous posts attempts have been made to explain the importance of contrasting entry-level wages with a fixed national minimum wage.  As previously indicated vital decisions have...

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Occupational pay levels: Important differences

The Employment Equity Act (EEA) obliges senior management to create a framework for each enterprise and to report thereon.   Decisions are processed from the top down to the bottom of the enterprise and employees are paid...

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Occupational management levels: Internal equity senior managers

It is just not possible to appoint employees to senior management levels and assume that they will be capable of making all the necessary decisions that could affect the survival of the enterprise itself.  One of the tragedies...

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Entry-level and minimum wage: Not the same

By law all employers are expected to create a framework for each enterprise unit based on seven occupational levels (see EEA9).   But there should also be three ‘internal’ grades within each level.  So it is possible for...

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Internal equity external parity: Policies and practices

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Seven occupational levels: Early study by Melvin Koln

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Occupational levels: Flawed 2015 CEE report

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Pay or income differential: Proportionality not wage gap

Using the term ‘wage gap’ only confuses readers and has the danger of prolonging the stigma of outlawed past practices. It is irresponsible and wrong to suggest that there is a ‘wage gap’ between the lowest and highest pay...

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CCMA facilitators should offer EEA solutions

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Occupational levels: compared with job levels

South Africa already has world-class legal frameworks and requirements to ensure proportionate income differentials and ensure ‘equal pay for work of equal value’.   The only shortfall is the need to adopt 7 instead of  6...

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