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Department of Employment and Labour's Employment Equity (EE) Deputy Director, Masilo Lefika told EE workshop attendees that the revised EEA4 form requires them to provide salary differentials or gap between their top earners and lowest earners.

Lefika was presenting the revised EEA4 form during the first 2019 EE workshop to attendees in Kimberley yesterday (August 20).

“In the previous years we were speaking about equal pay for work of equal value and now is the time for implementation and reporting," he said.

Lefika told the roadshow that the main purpose of the EEA4 Form is to collect information for the establishment of norms and benchmarks to reduce the remuneration gap between the highest paid and lowest paid employees.

The theme of the workshops is: “Real transformation makes business sense". The objective of the roadshows is to create awareness on compliance with the Employment Equity Act.

This year's workshops will focus on the following:      

• EEA4 – a form to report on remuneration data
• International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention on elimination of violence and harassment in the 'World of Work'
• Commission for Conciliation Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) presentation on cases of violence, harassment and dispute resolutions.
  
   
  
  Meanwhile, Department of Employment and Labour's Director for Employment Equity, Ntsoaki Mamashela informed the workshop of an International Labour Organization Convention on violence and harassment in the world of work that was in the pipeline.
  
   
  
  The Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration concluded the workshop with a presentation on case law. According to the CCMA many employees still do not report cases when they are sexually abused, harassed, and or discriminated against.
  
   
  
  The workshops are aimed at employers or heads of organisations, academics, assigned senior managers, consultative forum members, human resource practitioners, trade unions representatives and employees.
  
   
  
  The next workshops this week will be held today (August 21), at the Orion Hotel, 1 Donkerhoek Road in Rustenburg; and on Thursday (August 22) at Fortis Hotel in Witbank.  
  
   
  
  All national workshops are held from 08:30 to 14:00 and members of the media are invited. The EE roadshows will end on 26 September 2019 in Johannesburg.
  
   
  
  For more information and inquiries on EE matters please contact: 086 010 1018 or visit Department website www.labour.gov.za for more updates of the schedule on venues. -                    
  
   
  
                                                                                                                                                         
  
  -ENDS-
  
   
  
  Issued by:
  
   
  
  Makhosonke Buthelezi
  
  Acting Departmental Spokesperson
  
  071 491 7236
  
  Makhosonke.buthelezi@labour.govza ​