BEE points

FNB rethinks ‘racial’ bursaries – hmmmm

Solidarity took FNB to task about their allocation of education bursaries for employees' children. The November issue of Treetalk (FNB's newsletter) offer financial support to children of African, Indian, Coloured and Chinese employees earning less than R100,000 a year.   This is a very well reported story indeed.  I'm not in the way of getting involved

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Caird Code Rule #1 – Is BEE applicable to you

A while ago I was doing a presentation to the American Chamber of Commerce on Equity Equivalents. One of the delegates was an apparel manufacturer who asked my why his company should consider the programme I was proposing. I was a little surprised that such a company would even consider equity equivalents as an option.

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Caird BEE consultation methodology

Caird follows a very strict implementation methodology on all our engagements. Understand the client's business This is a singularly vital aspect in any consultation. Without a firm understanding of a company's internal and external workings it is not possible to develop any working BEE solutions. Often the codes' requirements cannot and will not fit into

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Govt. commits to improving lives of the disabled and a bit on the advisory council

Got this off the Eyewitness News website.  It's the last paragraph that interests me “By 2014 we should have achieved our employment equity targets, the Welcome to The Ollie Halsall Archive minimum of two percent according to the Employment Equity Act,” said Motlanthe. Hmm – by that stage everyone else is supposed to have reached

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PIC and Cyril – two from Business Report

This is truly an hysterical article.  I would normally Tweet on these things but it warranted a lot more than 140 characters.   Ann Crotty reports that the Public Investment Corporation (PIC), which manages about R800 billion of funds on behalf of the Government Employees Fund, is in discussions with the Department of Public Works

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Very few companies consider skills development as an area that can generate BEE points within a very short period of time

And so begins my posting of useful information.  I am unfortunately not an expert on Skills Development but I know a lot of people who are.  Also I am not an expert on inserting tables into the blog and I can't seem to get Word to upload the posts.  I'll have to figure this out

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