The South African Department of Labour (DoL) has several sectoral determinations in order to accommodate and/or regulate special circumstances of labour, for example:
1. Contract Cleaning Sector 2. Civil Engineering Sector 5. Learnerships 6. Private Security Sector 7. Domestic Workers 9. Wholesale and Retail Sector 10: Children in the Performance of Advertising, Artistic and Cultural Activities 11. Taxi Sector 12. Forestry Sector 13. Farm Worker Sector 14. Hospitality Several South African Higher Education (HE) qualifications have one or more compulsory work-integrated learning modules/subjects as part of the curriculum of qualifications. The South African Department of Education (DoE) gazetted an obligation that institutions offering such qualifications should place students for their prerequisite work-integrated learning. Learnerships are qualifications in their own right and therefore not accessible as means to the work-integrated learning of HE qualifications. Organisations often express reluctance to accommodate HE students for work-integrated learning because of the statutory imperatives involved. A special DoL sectoral determination is proposed to relax the statutory imperatives and to serve as catalyst to encourage organisations to serve as hosts for the work-integrated learning of HE students. Such a DoL sectoral determination would be in the interest of the country’s skills development drives. Reference: The Higher Education Qualifications Framework (HEQF), Department of Education Government Notice No 928, gazetted (No. 30353) 5 October 2007
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