i-Cap is a 51% Black owned company that has been involved with employment equity even prior to the current legislation, when our principals were involved in setting up and managing the Breakwater Monitor project at the University of Cape Town.  The concept of benchmarking developed for this project formed the basis of the regulations for the Employment Equity Act and we spent five years assisting the Department of Labour with all aspects of the employment equity legislation implementation.

Our client base, since 1995, includes the entire spectrum of corporations in South Africa, including:

•        Government departments, such as the dti, Foreign Affairs and Housing

•        Listed companies, such as Metropolitan, Alexander Forbes, Vodacom and Nissan

•        Multi-Nationals, including Toyota, HP, Shell and Motorola

i-Cap believes that transformation is a journey and not an event.  Our philosophy is to form a long term partnership with our clients and we endeavor to provide strategic direction, moral support and business intelligence on an ongoing basis.  As your transformation partner, we provide advice, consulting, facilitation,  and software applications to assist you with all aspects of the Employment Equity Life-Cycle and the implementation of Broad-based Black Economic Empowerment.

i-Cap's in-house training programmes for employment equity forums can be customised for your own environment and typically covers the following aspects:

• Overview of the Employment Equity Act to ensure understanding of the legislative purpose
• Ensures that the concept of consultation is clearly grasped by forum members
• Define the roles and responsibilities of forum members and other stakeholders in the employment equity plan .
• Use a model to explain Employment Equity Accountability
• Provide a model, which depicts the phases of implementation for an employment equity plan
• Explain the link to Broad-based BEE

A standard one day training session for up to 20 delegates at your own premises cost R 16 000, exlcuding VAT and direct costs such as travelling.

i-Cap's employment equity forum training will benefit your organisation in the following ways:

• A clear understanding of the role and mandate for the employment equity forum members
• Increased competence and understanding of the principles of employment equity results in motivated and constructive engagement of all forum members to achieve the objectives of the plan
• Helps to retain forum members by empowering everyone with the same level of knowledge
• More effective forum meetings - no time wasted due to irrelevant issues being tabled
• A motivated and empowered employment equity forum will support the employment equity manager to achieve the objectives of the plan