All About Learnerships

Read or download labour legislation published as Acts and Amendments to the Acts

• Skills Development Act

  Aims to develop and improve the skills of the South African workforce.

• Skills Development Levies Act

  Prescribes how employers should contribute to the National Skills Fund.

All the sectoral determination of an act

• Sectoral Determination 5 : Learnerships
  

Plain English summaries of key topics within labour legislation

• Basic Guide to Annual Leave (Learnerships)
  Rules for annual leave as prescribed by Sectoral Determination 5 for learnerships.
• Basic Guide to Deductions (Learnerships)
  Sectoral Determination 5 allows for deductions from a learner worker’s pay only under certain conditions
• Basic Guide to Employee Records (Learnerships)
  Sectoral Determination 5 requires that employers keep a record of certain employee information, for learner workers.
• Basic Guide to Employer’s Duties (Learnerships)
  Sectoral Determination 5 lays down obligations for employers who employ learners.
• Basic Guide to Employment Contracts (Learnerships)
  Sectoral Determination 5 requires that employers give learner workers certain details of their employment in writing
• Basic Guide to Family Responsibility Leave (Learnerships)
  Under Sectoral Determination 5, learner workers may take paid leave to attend to certain family situations.
• Basic Guide to Learnership Agreements
  Under the Skills Development Act, an agreement must be signed by the learner (a type of apprentice), employer and training provider
• Basic Guide to Learnership Contracts
  The Skills Development Act requires all new learners to sign an employment contract with their employer
• Basic Guide to Learnership Disputes
  The Skills Development Act provides procedures for resolving disputes about learnerships (a type of apprenticeship)
• Basic Guide to Learnership Requirements
  The Skills Development Act allows Sector Education and Training Authorities (SETAs) to start learnerships only if certain conditions are met
• Basic Guide to Maternity Leave (Learnerships)
  Sectoral Determination 5 gives pregnant learner workers the right to take maternity leave
• Basic Guide to Overtime (Learnerships)
  Sectoral Determination 5: Learnership Workers regulates overtime working hours and pay for such hours.
• Basic Guide to Pay and Allowances (Learnerships)
  Sectoral Determination 5 requires that learners' pay is calculated according to the number of hours worked.
• Basic Guide to Pay Slips (Learnerships)
  Sectoral Determination 5 stipulates that employers must give learnerhip workers certain details each time they are paid.
• Basic Guide to Public Holidays (Learnerships)
  Sectoral Determination 5 stipulates the conditions for working on Public Holidays for learnership workers.
• Basic Guide to Registering for the Skills Development Levy
  The Skills Development Levy Act stipulates that employers must register to pay the levy.
• Basic Guide to Sick Leave (Learnerships)
  Rules for sick leave as prescribed by Sectoral Determination 5 for learnership workers.
• Basic Guide to Skills Development Levies
  The Skills Development Levies Act stipulates that all employers pay 1% of their workers' pay to the skills development levy.
• Basic Guide to Skills Programmes
  Basic Guide to Skills Programmes
• Basic Guide to Termination (Learnerships)
  Sectoral Determination 5: Learnership Workers stipulates the procedures for termination of an employment contract.
• Basic Guide to Working Hours (Learnerships)
  Sectoral Determination 5 regulates working hours and rest periods for learnership workers.
• Basic Guide to Working on Sundays (Learnerships)
  Sectoral Determination 5: Learnerships prescribes the wages for working on a Sunday.

Simple step-by step instructions for processes and procedures

• How to Find and Choose Unemployed Learners

  The Department of Labour provides a service to help employers find and choose unemployed learners, guided by the Skills Development Act

• How To Register as a Work-seeker

  Unemployed people can register as work-seekers at their nearest labour centre.

• How To Set Up Learnerships if you are a Training Provider

  Training providers must be accredited with SETA's and they must form a partnership with employers to start learnerships.

• How To Set Up Learnerships if you are an Employer

  Employers must choose a learnership, training provider and apply for a learnership grant.

Download application forms, claim forms, reports, and samples of employment documents with instructions. You can also download templates of documents issued by the Department of Labour

• Sample - Employment Contract
• Sample - Learnership Agreement

  A sample document of a Learnership Agreement contract

Download special reports, guides, and other useful information

• Human Resource Development Strategy
  
• Skills Strategy Implementation Report 2003
  
• State of Skills 2003