TABLE OF CONTENT - Emfuleni Local Municipality

Employment Equity through the submission of quarterly reporting to the
Transformation Forum on EE outputs for each Business Division or Business
Unit. Performance contracts and agreements are concluded and signed by all
S57 employees although one of them resigned end of September 2008.
• The cascading of performance management to level 5 is in various stages of
conclusion and finalization.
• Budget has been approved for 140 licensees on Success Factors.
3.3.4 Recruitment, Selection and Appointments
The ELM is committed to achieve a workforce that will be broadly
• Representative of the South African people and to utilize employment and
personnel management practices that are based on ability, objectivity, fairness and
the need to redress the imbalances of the past.
• Recruitment is not only one of the most important ways in which the organization
meets its human resource capacity requirements; it is also one of the prime
instruments for achieving employment equity. In planning for recruitment, a Human
Resource Plan including (EE plan) must be established and time frames, cost and
staff requirements and employment standards must be determined and validated.
• Selection and consequent appointments must be seen within this ambit of the EE
Act’s definition of suitably qualified (formal qualifications, experience, life skills, prior
learning and potential).
• The ELM Employment Equity and Recruitment and Selection Policy has been
drafted and submitted to the council for approval.
3.3.5 Remuneration and Benefits
Disparities exist between and within certain categories of employees executing the same
complexity of work, performance level and relevant market value. It must be noted that
this is historical and as a result of the amalgamation of 4 councils to form the Emfuleni
Local Municipality. Some employees are therefore referred to as Cost to Incumbent
(CTI) as they are paid at ‘peculiar’ salary scales. A salary audit is currently underway
where after we will develop a position on corrective action in consultation with our
unions.
3.4 INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY
3.4.1 Introduction
All IT Services are rendered to Emfuleni Local Municipality by employees of Sedibeng
District Council on a service level agreement (SLA). A total of nine (8) permanent
employees and (4) four contract appointments are allocated to render the IT Services.
The IT Services rendered to Emfuleni Local Municipality can be divided into the following
categories: Operations, Technical Maintenance, Software Support, Projects and
Administration.
3.4.2 Operations
Staff compliment allocated to this function is: 2 X Operators.
The above staffs are responsible for:
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