S.L. 595.4 Art. 3Functions and duties of the Unit.

(1) The Unit shall have the function of retraining and re-skilling public employees with a view to deploy them and, or engaging them in any department or entity where their acquired skills are required.

(2) The Unit shall have the duty to:

(a) identify public employees whose current duties are not in line with the mandate of their current organisation;

(b) develop an on-the-job retraining or re-skilling programme with a view to re-integrate such public employees into the needs of the public administration;

(c) liaise with the Centre for Development, Research and Training for class-based training of identified public employees;

(d) conduct a gap analysis of the required skills which are currently in demand across the public administration;

(e) tailor re-skilling and retraining programmes to meet such gaps;

(f) redeploy retrained and re-skilled public employees to designated entities; and

(g) perform any other duties which may be compatible with the general mandate for the Unit and which the Unit may be directed to undertake.

(3) For the purposes of sub-regulation (2)(f), the Unit may, following Ministerial direction, issue calls for application and, or expressions of interest on behalf of other public sector entities whether individually or in groups.

(4) When an individual is engaged directly by the Unit in terms of subregulation (3), the individual shall, on completion of the retraining programme which is to be established in the relative call for applications or expression of interest, be transferred to the entity on whose behalf the Unit issues the call, and the respective termination and engagement forms shall be completed on the same day.