Every employer with an annual payroll above R500,000 pays a Skills Development Levy. Most pay it and recover nothing. ArkKonsult helps South African employers transform their skills development obligations from a cost centre into a strategic business tool, using learnerships, workplace skills plans, and SETA engagement to recover levies, improve your B-BBEE scorecard, and build the workforce your business actually needs.
Advice on mandatory and discretionary grant claims to maximise your recovery from your SETA.
Preparation and submission of your WSP and Annual Training Report (ATR) to the relevant SETA.
Design, registration and management of learnership programmes aligned to your sector and B-BBEE objectives.
Navigating SETA relationships, accreditation requirements, and funding windows on your behalf.
Strategic advice on using your training investment to maximise your B-BBEE skills development scorecard points.
Assistance for industry bodies seeking to establish or professionalise occupational qualifications and designation frameworks.
Dr Ivor Blumenthal served as CEO of the Furniture Industries Training Board (FITB), giving him direct institutional experience of how skills development frameworks operate at the SETA level.
We do not process your SDL claim alongside hundreds of others. We help you understand what your levy entitles you to, build a plan to access it, and align your training investment to your B-BBEE and workforce development strategy at the same time.
South Africa's Skills Development Levy requires employers with an annual payroll above R500,000 to contribute 1% of their total payroll to their relevant SETA. Of that levy, 20% goes to the National Skills Fund and 80% is allocated to the SETA. Employers can reclaim a significant portion through mandatory and discretionary grants — but only if they submit compliant Workplace Skills Plans and Annual Training Reports on time.
Most small and medium employers lose their entire discretionary grant allocation simply because they do not know how to claim it, or miss the submission window. ArkKonsult closes that gap.
If you are paying skills development levies without a strategy to recover them, you are leaving money on the table. Contact ArkKonsult for a confidential assessment of your current position.
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