More than 50 percent of the inspected employers across South Africa have so far been issued with non-compliance notices by the Department of Employment and Labour's Inspection and Enforcement Services (IES) branch, for various contraventions across all labour legislations during the period of June 2021 and March 2022.
This is according to the Department of Employment and Labour's Advocate Fikiswa Bede, Chief Director: Statutory and Advocacy Services, during the IES's Employment Standards Conference which has started today (15 February 2023) at the Coastlands Hotel, Musgrave in Durban. Advocate Bede was delivering a presentation on the IES Status of Compliance Report with the purpose to provide a close-out report for the National Roving Team (NRT) Projects which took place from June 2021 to March 2022.
The Conference, themed: “Evolve, Pursue and Overtake", has been attended by Employment Standards Inspectors from all provinces to discuss the importance of the inspectors' role on inspections with the aim of protecting the vulnerable workers in different sectors.
The total number of inspections conducted by the NRT is 6415 since the beginning of the project or since June 2021 to March 2022, with the most number of inspections conducted during the Target Recovery Project in Gauteng.
“In terms of the SOP (Standard Operation Procedure), cases for prosecution are referred to Statutory Services of the province wherein the inspection took place to comply with the CCMA and or Magistrate Court jurisdictional rules. The cases are referred through the specialists of both the referring and the receiving provinces. The total number of notices issued across all legislations is 3 093. And the number of non-compliant employers after expiry of the notice is 1 159," said Advocate Bede.
The National Roving Team (NRT) is a team of inspectors from all provinces across all legislations save for the Employment Equity Inspectors, established in June 2021.
The NRT consists of five teams, with a team leader and eight inspectors from the following disciplines:
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