Skills Development

Key Principles:

Skills Development is a priority element and therefore a Measured Entity must achieve a minimum of 40% of the total targets set out under skills development expenditure ( 4.8 of the 12 points)  and Learnerships, Apprenticeship and Internships (3.2 of the 8 points) of the Skills Development Element.

• Compliance targets must be met in accordance with the overall demographic representation of the black Economic Active Population (EAP) including the bonus points
• Expenditure done on non-employees can be counted.
• Bonus points are only applicable if a trainee tracking tool has been developed.
• Both Category F and Category G are capped to 15% of total Skills Development expenditure.
• Legitimate training expenses include cost of training materials, cost of trainers, cost of training facilities including cost of catering, scholarships and bursaries, course fees, accommodation and travel, administration costs such as the organization of training including where appropriate the cost of the measured entity of employing a skills development facilitator or a training manager and also reasonable accommodation costs to enable persons with disabilities to participate.
• Accommodation, Travel and catering costs (non-exhaustive) are capped at 15% of total Skills Development expenditure.
• Mandatory Sectorial Training is excluded from the scorecard.