TRADE, Industry and Competition Deputy Minister, Fikile Majola, says companies must take seriously the role of building staff capacity and formal training.
“The Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) Commission, when allocating bonus performance points to companies based on training compliance, must interrogate the kind of training that has been administered by each company,” Majola said.
Speaking at the B-BBEE Commission annual conference held under the theme, ‘Skills Development: What is at stake’, Majola said some companies appoint training service providers, sometimes working with SETAs, to do a “box-ticking exercise” at the expense of the people.
“They know exactly that nobody can have upward mobility within a company with those certificates. Some of those certificates are as good as “certificates of attendance”, yet money has been paid to service providers in the name of training workers from that 6% budget of skills training,” Majola said.
On the other hand, the Deputy
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