• Professional, Vocational, Technical and Academic (PIVOTAL)
• Provides a full occupationally ‐ directed qualification e.g. degree, diploma, learnership, internships. Not a short course or seminar
• Claim a maximum of 10% of the SDL
• Other Fasset grants also focused on pivotal programmes.
• Pivotal Grant not finalised by 30 June, comments on the grant regulations have been submitted to DHET and under consideration.
• Deadline date for Mandatory Grant passed on 30 June
• No Fasset Skills Advisor Assistance provided this year. Impact?

• Positions that remain unfilled for prolonged periods of time
• People required to fill ongoing employment vacancies
• 79% professional occupations
• Examples include: trainee accountants and auditors, bookkeepers, accounting technicians, general accountants, financial officers, supply chain professionals

Mandatory Grant 30 June 2012
Strategic Cash Grant 1 March 2012
Pivotal Grant 1 March 2012
Learnership Cash Grant 1 March 2012
Small Medium and Micro Enterprises Grant 1 March 2012
Assessor and Moderator Grant 1 March 2012

• SDL and NLP payers
• Small and medium employers
• Black and people with disabilities
• Commenced and completed in 2011 calendar year
• Fasset and other selected learnerships
• No evidence required, Fasset will confirm on system
• Applicant to ensure Professional Body submits learner info to Fasset
• 10 learners per employer, Entry and Exit grant
• Grant depends on length of programme, tariff scheme to be applied
• Grant due on 1 March 2012

• Strategic Cash Grant
• Expenses to a maximum value of 20% of SDL
• White women acceptable for certain criteria
• MS Excel format required and subject to capping
• Schedule of tariffs must be applied
• 4 criteria: learnerships, academic and professional study, qualityassured workplace experience and workplace experience for unemployed learners from a tertiary education institution

• Amount will be limited to R11,000 per five employees
• Forms employing fewer than 50 people
• White women acceptable for senior courses
• No learnerships, structured courses only. No short courses
• Currently undersubscribed
Size
1 – 5
6
– 10
11
– 15
16 – 20
21
– 25
26 – 30
31 – 35
36
– 40
41 – 45
45
– 49
Amount
R 11,000
R 22,000
R 33,000
R 44,000
R 55,000
R 66,000
R 77,000
R 88,000
R 99,000
R 110,000

• Assessor and Moderator Grant
• Reimburse cost of training
• Assessor / moderator to register against Fasset qualification
• Assessor requires approval of registration (from the relevant professional body or Seta)
• Applicable to all population groups

Recruitment and Selection
Labour Law Update
Companies Act
Performance Management
Influencing & Negotiating Skills
Budget and Tax Update 2012
Attendance certificates are available for download from Fasset website
Timetable subject to change
July 2011
August 2011
Sep 2011
October 2011
February 2012
March 2012

• To address the shortage of professionals in Fasset sector
• Training of learners in workplace readiness skills – including soft skills and technical financial skills
• Learners are black and/or disabled, and once employed by the company may be put forward for a Learnership Cash Grant (LCG)
• 70% placement minimum requirement
• Funded by Fasset with unclaimed levy money

Thusanani
• Black unemployed graduates in Gauteng with various qualifications
• Intensive 3 month Workplace Readiness Programme (theory and practical)
• Learners placed on learnerships / internships
• Mentorship offered for at least 6 months after the intervention
• Contact Avril Peddie (011) 678-2144
Phakamani
• Unemployed matriculants or those with incomplete qualifications
• Learners attain an Accounting Technician Certificate from the AAT
• Candidates receive work readiness training in Gauteng
• AAT learnership designed for completion within a year whilst working and studying
• Contact Robbie Knott (011) 466-3312
Bonani
• Black unemployed finance graduates with BCom degrees or National Diplomas
• Offered in Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, and Western Cape
• Intensive 5 month Workplace Readiness Programme including training in a ‘virtual office’
• Contact Robbie Knott (011) 466-3312

• Distinguishing organisations that promote training and development in Fasset sector
• Deadline is 1 August 2011
• Categories:
 Best Practice in a large employer
 Best Practice in a medium employer
 Best Practice in a small employer
 Best Practice in a registered non-levy payer employer

Andre has over 20 years experience as a senior HR professional in a variety of industries.
His roles in corporate environments include that of HR Director, HR Executive, Manager:
Strategy and Remuneration, Training Manager and Head: Training and Personnel Services.
Currently he is an independent consultant, and clients include: Financial Portfolio Managers
(FPM), AngloGold Ashanti, Debswana Diamond Company, Anglo American (Corporate),
Barclay’s Africa, LG Electronics SA and Nedcor. His consulting includes working in
Mauritius, Kenya, Ghana, Namibia, Botswana and South Africa.
Andre has facilitated various Fasset workshops in the past: Organisational Values,
Emotional Intelligence, Latest Trends in Recruitment and Selection, Talent Management,
Performance Management and Building and Maintaining a Team. Andre completed an
Honours Degree in Counseling Psychology and an Honours Degree in Education. He is also a qualified and registered Psychometrist .