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FIETA to disband in SETA restructuring
According to Roger Godsmark of Forestry SA, the Department of Higher Education has proposed that FIETA be split up and the various components amalgamated with existing SETAs.
“FSA is concerned about this proposal because it could potentially severely dilute the control that the industry currently has over how members’ levy income is spent,” said Roger.
At a recent FIETA Board meeting, several options were identified, including:
- Moving FIETA in its entirety across to the new Manufacturing SETA
- Moving FIETA in its entirety into the new Agri / Food Bev SETA
- Splitting FIETA as per the DHET’s proposal.
To begin with, the point was made that it would not be possible for FIETA to remain in its current form as its annual income of R87 million (in 2009/10) does not meet the new minimum threshold for SETA’s of R120 million per annum.
According to Roger the Board’s view was that FIETA should not be split (thereby retaining its value-chain composition) and that the entire FIETA should form the core of the proposed new Manufacturing SETA.
The Fieta Board will present its submission to the National Skills Authority, which will announce the restructured SETA landscape in the Government Gazette at the end of August.
Thereafter there will be a ‘transition’ period during which all affected SETAs will make the necessary arrangements to comply with the new landscape which comes into effect on 1 April 2011.
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