LearningWorks – Strategic procurement partner

We offer a range of creative solutions…

that service, support and promotes best practice in B-BBEE and guarantees compliance on all elements on the scorecard.

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Overview

our unique reporting methodology helps you track your goals on your journey to compliance

LearningWorks is 51% black woman owned, designated group, with a Level 2 B-BBEE status, and is a business advisory practice in transformation consulting, skills development and compliance management. LearningWorks offers a range of creative solutions that service, support and promotes best practice in B-BBEE and guarantees compliance on all elements on the scorecard. The focus areas are mainly B-BBEE Advisory Services, Employment Equity, Skills Development, all three sub-elements of Enterprise & Supplier Development; (Procurement, Enterprise Development and Supplier Development. LearningWorks offers a single source of solutions that deliver value to our clients across the complexities of transformation. Our unique reporting methodology helps you track your goals on your journey to compliance.

By taking advantage of our compliance status, we can deliver up to 750% recognition on your procurement spend with us.

LearningWorks acts as a strategic transformation partner to maximize your score while your low and non-compliant suppliers prepare for improved scorecards.

LearningWorks provides training and mentoring to your beneficiary entities to increase their operational or financial capacity. Our services include Supplier Analysis and Reporting, Supplier B-BBEE Transformation, Enterprise and Supplier Development for Sustainability.

Vision

Our vision is to enrich lives.

Mission

Our mission is to provide certainty.

Focus

Our focus is on delivering a single holistic Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment solution to our clients across all the elements of the scorecard.

Our Services

we offer a range of services for your business

Strategy
Maximizing competitiveness in the local business environment

Compliance
Our expertise in B-BBEE compliance and verification preparation ensures peace of mind for our clients

Ownership Solutions
We offer various ownership solutions that will make strategic sense to your organisation

Skills Development Solutions
We bring our training to your doorstep wherever you are in South Africa

Enterprise and Supplier Development
Assisting clients with managing and improving BEE compliance within their supply chain

Socio-economic Development
Assisting clients with their socio-economic development compliance targets

Strategy

maximizing competitiveness in the local business environment

LearningWorks designs transformation strategies that maximize competitiveness in the local business environment. Our expertise in B-BBEE strategy development ensures that clients experience a substantial score improvement. We believe that it is vital that BEE spending is managed to ensure a return on investment that can be measured.

Through focused analysis, we determine your current level and build a strategy to maximize your score within the constraints of budget and time. We focus on BEE score maximization in the short term and develop plans for sustainable transformation in the future.

Our expertise in B-BBEE compliance and verification preparation ensures clients receive maximum points recognition. Our services include Status Analysis, Strategy Development and Implementation, Verification Preparation, and Strategic Sourcing.

Changes to the BEE legislation will cause most businesses scores to drop significantly which will limit their competitiveness in the marketplace. Alternative activities to earn points such as changing suppliers might require a radical directional change in business thinking and processes. Identifying points scoring activities while simultaneously eliminating weaknesses is essential to maintaining a satisfactory scorecard.

Compliance

our expertise in B-BBEE compliance and verification preparation ensures peace of mind for our clients

LearningWorks delivers cost effective solutions across the essential compliance areas as required under the Amended Codes of Good Practice for B-BBEE. Our specialists focus on Employment Equity and Skills Development compliance to guarantee that our clients comply with legislation.

Our expertise in B-BBEE compliance and verification preparation ensures peace of mind for our clients. We source supplier BEE certificates, complete electronic documentation and prepare the files with all the necessary documentary evidence to ensure points are maximized on all elements of the scorecard.

Ownership Solutions

we offer various ownership solutions that will make strategic sense to your organisation

In today’s BEE climate every business needs a level of BEE ownership to remain competitive. At LearningWorks we offer various ownership solutions that will make strategic sense to your organisation. Gone are the days of having a BEE partner that adds no value. Our strategic solutions will ensure that your BEE ownership objectives are reached and that you earn maximum recognition therefore on your ownership scorecard.

Skills Development Solutions

we bring our training to your doorstep wherever you are in South Africa

Our training division, LearningWorks Academy is a private training provider with the offices based in Midrand, but we bring our training to you wherever you are in South Africa.

Our Academy is accredited by the Services SETA – 12428

We also compile accredited Skills Programs aligned to our customer’s needs as well as entrepreneurial development. We have been privileged to have experience in the disability sector as we have conducted learnerships for people with various disabilities.

All the courses have both formative and summative assessments and a workplace practical component and learners must submit portfolios of evidence in order to be found competent and acquire these credit values.

Accredited Learnership Programmes

A learnership means a route to an occupationally related qualification registered on the National Qualifications Framework (NQF). It is a workplace education and training programme comprising both structured practical workplace (on-the-job) experience and structured theoretical training over a period of at least twelve months.

Accredited Skills Programmes

Learning Programmes means any learning programme set out in the Learning Programme Matrix. The short skills learning intervention has been designed as an occupationally based, short term learning programme. When successfully completed by the learner, it constitutes credits towards a qualification registered on the NQF. The Skills Programme comprises of a cluster of unit standards derived from the same qualification.

Learner Sourcing and Placements

We source both abled and disabled unemployed candidates. Aligned to both your specific requirements and the Economically Active Population (EAP) targets to maximise your points on this element of the B-BBEE Scorecard.

At the end of the learnership we engage with other businesses to find full time employment for the learners so that absorption bonus points are earned.

Skills Development Facilitator (SDF)

Entities only receive points in the skills development section of the B-BBEE scorecard if they comply with the Skills Development Act, the Skills Development Levies Act and are registered with the applicable SETA (Sector Education and Training Authority).

They must also have developed and submitted a Workplace Skills Plan (WSP), an Annual Training Report (ATR) and Pivotal Report which are SETA approved. Furthermore, they must have implemented Priority Skills Programmes.

Our experienced SDF’s can assist to ensure that all the requirements are met so that the Mandatory and Discretionary Grants can be applied for with the relevant SETA to offset your Skills Development spend.

Mandatory Grant

To qualify for a mandatory grant which is equal to 20% of the skills levies paid, a company must appoint a Skills Development Facilitator (SDF), either internally or externally. Complete and submit an Annual Training Report (ATR) reflecting all the training interventions provided during the reporting period. Complete and submit a Workplace Skills Plan (WSP) indicating the planned skills interventions for the next reporting period. These annual reports must be submitted to the relevant SETA by 30 April.

Discretionary Grant

To qualify for a discretionary grant which is equal to 49.5% of the skills levies paid, proper records must be maintained of all PIVOTAL programmes including learnerships, internships, bursaries, and skills programmes. As with mandatory grants, the SETA will only consider discretionary grant applications if all the regulatory requirements have been met.

Tax Deductions

The Learnership tax incentive provides an additional tax deduction for registered learnerships. The objectives of this incentive are to encourage the creation of jobs by reducing the cost of hiring new employees, offering learnerships, and to encourage skills development in the workplace.

The incentive is regulated by section 12H of the Income Tax Act and is available to employers who have entered into registered learnership agreements. The additional tax deduction comprises of both an annual allowance and a completion allowance.

The value of the additional allowance you can claim depends on the NQF level applicable, with an added benefit if the learner is disabled. See the table below:

	Annual Allowance		Completion Allowance
NQF Level	Learner without Disability	Learner with Disability	Learner without Disability	Learner with Disability
1 – 6	R40 000	R60 000	R40 000	R60 000
7 – 10	R20 000	R50 000	R20 000	R50 000

You cannot claim the additional Section 12H deduction if the learner has previously failed to complete any other registered learnership agreement to which the employer or an associated institution was a party to; and the registered learnership agreement contains the same education and training component as the other failed registered learnership agreement.

Employment Tax Incentive (ETI)

Millions of young South Africans are excluded from participating in economic activity, and as a result suffer disproportionately from unemployment, discouragement and economic marginalisation. High youth unemployment means young people are not gaining the skills or experience needed to drive the economy forward. This lack of skills can have long-term adverse effects on the economy.

In South Africa the current lack of skills and experience as well as perceptions regarding the restrictiveness of labour regulations make some prospective employers reluctant to hire the youth.

As a South African employer, you now have a great opportunity to boost the employment of young work seekers.

The ETI is an incentive aimed at encouraging employers to hire young work seekers. It will reduce the cost of hiring young people through a cost-sharing mechanism with the government, by allowing you to reduce the amount of Pay-As-You-Earn (PAYE) you pay while leaving the wage received by the employee unaffected. This incentive, extended until 28 February 2029, complements existing government programmes with similar objectives e.g. learnership agreements.

Employers will be able to claim the incentive for a twenty four month period for all employees who qualify—the second year at 50% of the first year’s claim.

Contact us

To find out how we can assist your business with reducing the cost of skills development initiatives through SETA Grants, Tax Deductions, and Incentives, contact us at 079 992 4258 or complete the contact form below and one of our advisors will be in touch with you.

Enterprise and Supplier Development

assisting clients with managing and improving BEE compliance within their supply chain

LearningWorks assists clients with managing and improving BEE compliance within their supply chain.

To address Preferential Procurement and its complementary elements of Enterprise and Supplier Development (collectively referred to as ESD), LearningWorks provides a structured approach to E&SD to be implemented over an agreed timeframe. We will assist in building internal capacity, achieve the sub-minimum targets whilst driving transformation within your supply chain.

During the project phase we will analyse your supply chain and identify opportunities for improvement so that you meet your targets for all three ESD sub elements.

Enterprise Development

Enterprise Development is a contribution, both monetary and non-monetary, from any measured entity to either an Exempt Micro Enterprise (EME) or Qualifying Small Enterprise (QSE) that has at least 51% black ownership. The purpose is to provide contributions to assist in the operating, financial and development towards business sustainability.

For Enterprise Development the target is 1% of Nett Profit After Tax (NPAT) for both Large Enterprises and QSEs.

This is dependent on the Sector Codes of the measured entity as some have different targets.

Supplier Development

Supplier Development contributions means monetary or non-monetary contributions carried out for the benefit of suppliers to the measured entity, with the objective of contributing to the development, sustainability, and financial and operational independence of those beneficiaries.

Supplier Development beneficiaries are suppliers that are Exempt Micro Enterprises and Qualifying Small Enterprises that are at least 51% black owned or at least 51% black women owned.

For Supplier Development the target is 2% of Nett Profit After Tax (NPAT) for Large Enterprises and 1% for QSEs.

This is dependent on the Sector Codes of the measured entity as some have different targets.

Socio-economic Development

assisting clients with their socio-economic development compliance targets

LearningWorks is focused on assisting clients with their socio-economic development compliance targets. We ensure that your SED initiatives meet the requirements within your B-BBEE sector codes and ensure sustainability by managing the projects on your behalf, should this be required.

Socio-Economic Development contributions mean monetary or non-monetary contributions implemented for communities, natural persons, or groups of natural persons where at least 75% of the beneficiaries are black. The objective of Socio-Economic Development contributions is promotion of sustainable access for the beneficiaries to the economy. These contributions commonly take the following forms:

Development programmes for women, youth, people with disabilities, people living in rural areas,
Support of healthcare and HIV/AIDS programmes,
Support for education programmes, resources and materials at primary, secondary and tertiary education level, as well as bursaries and scholarships,
Community training, skills development for unemployed people and adult basic education and training, or
Support of arts, cultural or sporting development programmes.

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Contact details

T: +27 (0)79 992 4258
E: glenn@learningworks.co.za

25 Allan Road
Glen Austin
Midrand

LearningWorks is a proud Level 2 B-BBEE contributor

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