ARE YOU POPIA, PAIA & CPA COMPLIANT?
In addition to LabourNet’s comprehensive compliance product suite, LabourNet will handle all your Information Compliance needs, further enhancing our statement of becoming an extension of your HR department! Let us become your outsourced Information Compliance partner and mitigate the risk of non-compliance.
What is POPIA and why do I need to comply?
All businesses – large or small – need to comply with the Protection of Personal Information Act. POPIA deals with the processing of personal information of your employees, clients and suppliers with all departments of your company being affected, and is enforced by fines and even criminal offences for the head of the company.
POPIA enforces how you collect personal information, what you do with it, how it is stored and ultimately, when and how it is destroyed after use. Our comprehensive service offering sees us assisting you to implementing all the relevant policies and procedures to ensure you are POPIA compliant.
Our offering includes:
POPIA Awareness Training
Risk Assessments and Gap Analysis
Reviewing and Drafting Compliance Policies
Information Officer Appointment and Training
Data Breach Assistance
How does PAIA fit In?
The Promotion of Access to Information Act is a sister Act to POPIA and operates side by side with POPIA in many areas of compliance.
PAIA is aimed at assisting individuals to gain effective access to information that your company may hold. This is predominantly achieved through the PAIA manual.
The PAIA manual sets out when and how an individual can request access to information that is held, and when and how access to the information is either granted or denied. Every private and public entity must have a PAIA manual. Not having a PAIA manual could lead to fines or imprisonment.
We can support you with:
Drafting and implementing a PAIA Manual
PAIA investigations
PAIA Requests
Public Body Reporting
Optional Private Body Reporting
What is the CPA?
The Consumer Protection Act aims to promote a fair, accessible and sustainable marketplace for consumer products and services. The CPA applies to agreements concluded between suppliers and consumers and has a far-reaching application.
In addition to regulating the marketing of goods and services to consumers, the CPA proposes to regulate relationships, transactions, advertisements, and agreements.
Let us support you with:
CPA Awareness Training
Risk Assessments and Gap Analysis
Reviewing and Drafting Consumer Policies and Processes
On-going facilitation and advice with consumer complaints
Pre-Investigation and Investigation Assistance
While the CPA provides rights to consumers, it also provides remedies when these rights have been violated. The CPA therefore provides for quick and effective resolutions for complaints.
Non-compliance with the CPA could lead to severe consequences including fines and/or imprisonment. The CPA provides for imprisonment of 12 months for certain contraventions and up to 10 years imprisonment for disclosure of private information. The CPA further provides for administrative fines of up to R1 million.
