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Use Beam Machine HR and Labour to manage employment equity, skills development, CCMA matters, disciplinary cases, and grievances.

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Working in HR and Labour

This page shows you how to manage labour, compliance, and people-case workflows in Beam Machine.

Product: Beam Machine
Module: HR and Labour
Role: HR Administrator, Labour Relations Lead, Compliance Reviewer
Difficulty: Intermediate
Time: 10 minutes first read
Last Updated: 2026-03-10
Version: Current Beam Machine app build in this repo

Before You Start

  • You should know the active entity.
  • You should know whether your work is employment equity, skills, CCMA, disciplinary, or grievance related.
  • Keep ../15-payroll-audit-controls-and-advisory.md open if you need the wider people and review view.

What is HR and Labour?

This module is where employee-related compliance and casework is tracked outside the standard pay run. On paper, this would be the EE file, training programme file, dispute register, disciplinary pack, and grievance register.

In Beam Machine, it lives under HR & Labour.

When do you use this?

Use this module when:

  • employment equity reporting is due,
  • skills programmes must be tracked,
  • a CCMA dispute is opened,
  • a disciplinary matter is underway,
  • or a grievance must be logged and resolved.

If labour matters are managed informally, the business loses evidence and follow-up control.

Where do you find it?

Primary path: HR -> HR & Labour
Detailed routes:

  • /dashboard/hr
  • /dashboard/hr/ee-report
  • /dashboard/hr/skills
  • /dashboard/hr/ccma
  • /dashboard/hr/disciplinary
  • /dashboard/hr/grievances

How to work in HR and Labour

Review the module home

  1. Open HR & Labour.
  2. Review the cards for employees, skills programmes, open CCMA cases, disciplinary cases, and grievances.
  3. Open the specific work area that matches your task.

Review employment equity work

  1. Open HR & Labour -> Employment Equity Report.
  2. Review reporting by race, gender, disability, and occupational level.

Review skills development work

  1. Open HR & Labour -> Skills Development.
  2. Review WSP, ATR, learnership, bursary, and SETA-related records.

Review labour cases

  1. Open CCMA Cases for disputes, conciliation, and arbitration work.
  2. Open Disciplinary Cases for notices, hearings, sanctions, and appeals.
  3. Open Grievances for confidential grievance intake, routing, and resolution.

āœ… Checkpoint: You should now be in the correct case category instead of mixing very different labour matters together.

Common Questions & Issues

"Should this be a payroll case or an HR case?"

Why this happens: Users confuse pay errors with labour or people-case workflows.

Fix: Use Payroll for pay-run and payroll queries. Use HR & Labour for employment equity, disciplinary, grievance, and dispute work.

"Where does B-BBEE fit?"

Why this happens: The HR page links to B-BBEE because people and skills data affect the scorecard.

Fix: Use Statutory -> B-BBEE for the actual B-BBEE scorecard workflow.

"This feels bigger than a simple admin page"

Why this happens: Labour workflows often carry legal and evidence implications.

Fix: Keep the record in the system, then use your firm HR and legal policy for the procedural detail beyond the page.

What's Next

Related Pages

SA Compliance Reference

  • Follow applicable labour, employment-equity, and dispute-handling requirements together with your firm policy. This page is product guidance, not legal advice.

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