{"id":193771,"date":"2021-07-01T10:13:19","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T08:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/public-warned-about-learnership-scam\/"},"modified":"2021-07-01T10:13:19","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T08:13:19","slug":"public-warned-about-learnership-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/public-warned-about-learnership-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Public warned about learnership scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202107\/scam.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>The Department of Employment and Labour\u2019s Public Employment Service (PES) Branch has warned members of the public about the so-called National Youth Service learner-ship scam doing rounds on social media.<\/p>\n<p>The scam promises job-seekers a stipend of R5 000 per month and job-seekers are asked to forward their CVs to the department.<\/p>\n<p>The Department\u2019s PES Chief Director of Employment Services, Esther Tloane, said that the Branch knows nothing about the learnership.<\/p>\n<p>Tloane indicated that prospective job seekers should be wary of being asked to make any payments for services rendered as the department does not operate that way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe PES Branch exists to assist companies and workers to adjust to changing labour market conditions,\u201d Tloane said.<\/p>\n<p>Tloane said that the department uses its online job-matching platform called the Employment Services of South Africa (ESSA) which job seekers register their CVs on, while employers place job opportunities for matching purposes.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the public are advised to report illegal activities on the department\u2019s Fraud line on: 0860 022 194\/<a href=\"mailto:fraud@labour.gov.za\">fraud@labour.gov.za<\/a> \u2013&nbsp;<strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Employment and Labour\u2019s Public Employment Service (PES) Branch has warned members of the public about the so-called National Youth Service learner-ship scam doing rounds on social media. The scam promises job-seekers a stipend of R5 000 per month and job-seekers are asked to forward their CVs to the department. The Department\u2019s PES [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":193772,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[38678],"class_list":{"0":"post-193771","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-sanews","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/public-warned-about-learnership-scam.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}