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| Employment Equity and Skills
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| | Employment Equity
Our employment equity policy is included in the group’s Employment Policies and Procedures Manual and sets out our commitment to non discriminatory employment practices. The policy recognises the importance of initiative, effort and merit across the board while at the same time prioritising the advancement of designated groups.
Our employees receive copies of the detailed Employment Equity Plans via the members of the Employment Equity Committees of the respective divisions. Further targets, strategies and specific action plans are agreed with the Employment Equity Committees and are revised annually.
We continue to provide targeted recruitment campaigns, bursaries and learnership programmes to address any barriers to entry and promotion of historically disadvantaged individuals into specific job categories and occupations.
Tables detailing our progress towards achieving our equity targets can be viewed in our Annual Report, page 32. | | | Skills Development and Training
We are committed to ongoing training and development to further the skills base and empower employees to perform better in their current positions and so accelerate advancement. Emphasis is placed on internal promotion, with particular focus on black candidates. Our total training spend in the last year amounted to R9.4 million.
A standard induction programme has been developed for the group and a specialised induction programme for newly qualified engineers was introduced during the year.
Currently 69 learners are benefiting from the group’s Cadet Foreman programme, designed to accelerate training of suitable candidates as foremen. Of the current candidates 61% are black, an increase from the previous year.
A number of general external training and development courses were run during the year covering computer skills, health and safety, plant and operator skills, technical skills and specialised skills. Over 6 500 training sessions were conducted, with 82% of candidates being black.
Our training centre, accredited by the Construction Education and Training Authority (“CETA”), also conducts skills training. A total of 1 147 employees, of which 1 009 were black, attended courses at the centre during the 2010 financial year including: - Financial Literacy;
- Oral and Written Communication Skills;
- Procurement;
- Construction Management;
- Reading Construction Drawings;
- Civils Construction Site Administration;
- Concrete Technology;
- Machine and Vehicle Operation;
- Drill Rigging;
- Foreman Training;
- Erection of Formwork;
- Power Hand Tools; and
- Scaffolding and Preparing Work Areas.
Our employees are encouraged to further their education and CETA-accredited learnerships are provided to suitable candidates. Currently 34 employees are benefiting from learnerships, of which 65% comprises black learners.
During the past year and a half we have increased the number of bursaries offered to students who work for the group during vocational breaks and complete onsite training. At present 91 students are benefiting from this programme, of which 47% are black.
To better identify suitable candidates for succession and promote internal advancement training for graduates, we have developed a three year Site Leadership Development Programme aimed at recent graduates and site managers.
In order to incentivise and encourage advancement, top performing employees are rewarded through site incentive schemes based on the performance of their project.
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