KB20250611/01: Sage 300 People – Employment Equity

The Sage 300 People Employment Equity module allows you to address the issue of denied opportunities and removes the barriers of discrimination. The module lets you manage your employment equity goals and targets by defining equity positions, monitoring goals and targets against actual staff movements and appointments; manage equity targets and print all statutory Equity reports (EEA2, EEA4 & EEA13) required by the Department of Labour.

The management of Equity on Sage 300 People occurs in 2 modules, namely Personnel Management and Equity Management. Each module plays an integral role in the management of Equity and must be used in conjunction with each other. A summary of the information managed in each of the modules below:

Employment Equity

  • Equity Codes
  • Equity Company Information
  • Employment Equity Plans

Personnel Management

  • Equity Codes
  • Equity Company Information
  • Employment Equity Plans

The Sage 300 People Employment Equity module provides you with all essential guidelines on all aspects of Employment Equity required by South African legislation.

Employment Equity Reporting

Print all the statutory reports (EEA2, EEA4 and EEA13) required by the Department of Labour.

  • Numerical goals and targets require by your equity plan.
  • Monitor and evaluate your equity plan against your defined numerical goals and targets on a dashboard view.
  • Print validation reports to ensure you have all the relevant information for accurate reporting.

Employee Equity Screen

This contains the comprehensive employee details essential for Equity reporting.

  • Equity fields include gender, disabled employees and the nature of the disability, citizenship, type of employment, occupational category, occupational level and job function.
  • You can define workplaces per employee.
  • You can link payroll Masterfile information to equity fields like job grades, job titles, or on any hierarchy to avoid duplication of information.

Numerical Goals & Targets

Create user-defined numerical goals and targets for:

  • All employees and disabled employees per occupational level.
  • Group permanent and non-permanent employees according to gender.
  • Equity groups (African, Coloured, Indian, White) and foreign nationals.

Other Features include:

  • Conduct batch transactions entry for global update of equity fields.
  • Specific permission settings.

Employee Equity History Screen

Allows you to view current and previous months’ information for equity reporting.

  • View the Equity History screen per employee, for an unlimited number of months of equity history.
  • Equity History fields include occupational category, occupational level, job function, citizenship, type of employment, equity remuneration and municipalities.
  • Equity remuneration updates automatically from the information on your payroll system.
  • Define disciplinary actions, equity training and skills training in the Personnel Management and Skills Development modules to automatically update the employee equity fields required in your Equity Reports.