The Metropolis of Cape City has issued a robust warning to residents following reviews of a jobseekers registration rip-off.
In keeping with a Metropolis assertion, some opportunists are illegally charging charges for registration onto the Metropolis’s Jobseekers Database.
The database is a vital software within the recruitment course of for non permanent jobs beneath the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP).
“We want to remind the general public that registering on the Jobseekers Database, in addition to receiving any associated EPWP work alternatives from the Metropolis, is solely free,” the assertion learn.
“No cost is required at any stage of the method.”
The Metropolis’s EPWP Division lately grew to become conscious of incidents in Imizamo Yethu, Hout Bay, the place some residents have been misled into paying R5 for a registration kind and R2 for a proof of tackle.
What’s Cape City’s Jobseekers Database?
Yearly the Metropolis of Cape City creates work for about 40 000 unemployed Capetonians by way of the EPWP.
EPWP affords short-term and medium-term work alternatives for individuals who are unemployed or under-skilled.
This system types a part of the Metropolis’s committment to equitable employment practices and an efficient rollout of public works programmes.
The Jobseekers Database is thus an digital registry designed to facilitate the truthful and clear recruitment of unemployed people for these non permanent work alternatives.
Choice for employment is carried out via a random choice course of from this database.
How can residents register?
To hitch the database, unemployed residents are inspired to register their particulars, together with {qualifications} and abilities, at their native sub-council workplace.
Jobseekers have to convey a copy of their CV, their ID or a legitimate South African work allow.
“Don’t get exploited by opportunists,” Alderman Grant Twigg, the Metropolis’s Mayoral Committee Member for City Waste Administration, instructed jobseekers.
“The Metropolis doesn’t cost residents a cent for registering or receiving EPWP short-term work alternatives.”
What sort of labor is out there?
When you work on EPWP tasks, you’ll obtain on-the-job coaching that may be formal, accredited abilities programmes and learnerships.
The programme creates work alternatives throughout these main sectors:
- Infrastructure (labour intensive or upkeep)
- Social (early childhood improvement and home-based care)
- Environmental and tradition (environmental enchancment and cleansing)
“Opportunists soliciting cash from people looking for job alternatives are committing a prison offence and must be reported instantly to authorities for investigation,” Twigg added.
Residents are requested to report any suspicious behaviour to the Metropolis’s Fraud Hotline on 0800 323 130.
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