As your business grows, so does your compliance and human capital management. LBD Consultants brings labour law, HR, payroll, employment equity, skills development facilitation and four other specialist disciplines together in one practice, giving IT, engineering, and skills-development employers a single partner who understands the whole picture.
LBD Consultants is the labour law consultants South Africa businesses turn to when compliance cannot wait. Formerly LBD Payroll and Business Specialists, we have grown into a full labour and human capital advisory practice. Furthermore, we serve IT, engineering, skills development, and training sector employers specifically.
Our nine specialist divisions cover labour law, HR, payroll, bookkeeping, and employment equity. Consequently, every division reports directly to our Managing Director, so you get one accountable partner. This matters, because fragmented vendors let things fall through the gap. As a result, nothing gets lost between specialists who do not talk to each other.
Whether you need CCMA representation, a WSP submission, or a full employment equity plan, our team delivers expert guidance under one roof. In addition, our Labour Law Division is led by a practising Advocate, not a generalist. Therefore, you get senior-level oversight from day one.
Generic HR firms rarely understand project-based, technical workforces. Our HR compliance consultants South Africa clients rely on, however, specialise in exactly that gap. In addition, our Labour Law Division, led by a practising Advocate, handles CCMA and Bargaining Council representation. Similarly, we manage disciplinary hearings, restraint-of-trade disputes, and Section 189 retrenchment processes.
Meanwhile, the HR consulting firm South Africa employers choose builds the policies and performance frameworks that keep a growing team compliant. IT and engineering companies rarely carry in-house HR capacity. Consequently, our human capital advisory practice steps in as a fractional or outsourced HR function. Similarly, training companies and SDPs get support with fixed-term, independent-contractor, and TES agreements for their project-based facilitators.
Our HR advisory services also cover exit management, offboarding, and employee handbooks. Therefore, you get one HR compliance consultants South Africa partner across the entire employment lifecycle. That beats a patchwork of specialists who each solve only one piece of the puzzle.
Payroll remains the historical core of LBD Consultants, and we keep it that way deliberately. Our payroll and bookkeeping services South Africa clients depend on cover monthly payroll processing and payslip generation. Additionally, we handle PAYE, UIF, and SDL submissions to SARS. We also manage EMP201 and EMP501 reconciliations, so nothing lapses at year end.
Beyond payroll, our bookkeeping and payroll consultants also manage management accounts, VAT201 submissions, and creditor and debtor reconciliations. As a result, our outsourced payroll services bundle naturally with financial administration. This suits smaller clients who want one back-office retainer instead of two separate suppliers.
Moreover, SDPs and training companies managing SETA grant income benefit most from this pairing. Clean, audit-ready books are essential to retaining accreditation, after all. Consequently, our business bookkeeping services keep both your payroll and your wider finances compliant, together, under the same accountable partner.
The Employment Equity Amendment Act, in force from January 2025, introduced five-year sector numerical targets and a new online reporting process. Therefore, designated employers need employment equity consultants South Africa can trust. This is the fastest-moving compliance area in local labour law. Our EE compliance consultants build designated employer assessments and five-year EE Plans aligned to sector targets. Our B-BBEE and EE advisory work supports both compliance and procurement scoring at once.
Furthermore, our employment equity plan specialists prepare annual EE report submissions and support the new Certificate of Compliance application. This matters most for IT-sector clients, where B-BBEE scoring is often a contractual procurement requirement. In addition, our EE Act compliance experts run income differential and remuneration gap analysis. This draws directly on payroll and bookkeeping data already held in-house, so our employment equity reporting services stay accurate.
Consequently, nothing gets lost in translation between departments that usually do not talk to each other. Our employment equity consultants South Africa clients trust also track sector target changes as a standing process, not a once-off review.
Once a business registers for the skills development levy with SARS, it must appoint a registered SDF. Our skills development facilitator South Africa team handles that registration per employer, per SETA. Meanwhile, we develop Workplace Skills Plans and Annual Training Reports. Our SDF services South Africa clients also access SETA grant applications and learnership coordination, backed by wider skills development levy consultants expertise across every division.
For Skills Development Providers and training companies, this pairs naturally with our Training Division. It designs accredited and non-accredited courses across every discipline we cover. As a result, SDPs get their own SDF and EE compliance handled, plus a content partner for their client-facing courses. Similarly, our WSP and ATR submission specialists keep IT and engineering employers ahead of every SETA deadline, year after year, with learnership and SETA compliance support built in.
Ready to consolidate labour law, HR, payroll, bookkeeping, employment equity, and skills development under one accountable partner? Book a consultation with LBD Consultants today. Let our nine divisions do the work currently split across several vendors. One Managing Director signs off on all of it.
LBD Consultants is a South African labour and human capital advisory practice. Nine specialist divisions, one accountable partner: we help IT, engineering, and skills-development sector employers stay compliant, manage their people and their books well, and turn workforce data into decisions.
To be the trusted advisory partner for South African employers navigating labour law, human capital, and financial compliance, going beyond processing to genuine strategic guidance, as the regulatory landscape keeps moving.
To give employers in IT, engineering, and skills-development sectors a single point of accountability across labour law, HR, payroll, bookkeeping, skills development, and employment equity, so nothing falls through the gaps between specialists who don’t talk to each other.
Every division we run also builds capacity in the sectors we serve. Through our Training Division and our work with Skills Development Providers, we help grow the skilled, compliant workforce South Africa’s IT, engineering, and training sectors depend on, supporting job creation, skills transfer, and B-BBEE-aligned development along the way.
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LBD Consultants runs the labour law advisory services South Africa employers turn to for the highest-stakes work in the business. Unlike a generalist HR consultancy, our Labour Law Division is led by labour law lawyers, not an IR generalist.
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LBD Consultants provides the HR consulting services South African companies rely on when they need senior HR expertise without the overhead of a full in-house team. Our HR Division works alongside eight other specialist divisions, so a policy question never sits in isolation from your payroll, labour law, or employment equity position.
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Running payroll in-house is time-consuming, and a single missed PAYE or UIF deadline can trigger penalties from SARS. That is why growing businesses across South Africa turn to LBD Consultants for payroll services South Africa employers can rely on. Our Payroll Division processes salaries, manages statutory submissions and keeps your business compliant, so you can focus on running your company rather than chasing payslips and deadlines.
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Clean, accurate books are the foundation of every good business decision, yet many growing companies fall behind on reconciliations, VAT filings and monthly reporting simply because there is no dedicated finance capacity in-house. LBD Consultants offers bookkeeping services South Africa businesses can build on, from monthly general ledger maintenance and tax compliance through to COIDA submissions and full management accounts.
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Once your business registers for the skills development levy, the Skills Development Levies Act requires you to appoint a Skills Development Facilitator. Getting this wrong, or leaving the role unfilled, means missed WSP/ATR deadlines and forfeited SETA grant funding you have already paid into. LBD Consultants provides SDF services South Africa employers rely on to stay compliant and recover value from their skills levy contributions.
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Employment equity compliance in South Africa has moved fast since the Employment Equity Amendment Act came into force, and the sector-specific numerical targets it introduced catch many designated employers off guard. LBD Consultants provides employment equity services South Africa businesses need to stay compliant, from designated employer assessments through to annual reporting and Certificates of Compliance.
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Not every need fits neatly into a single service line. A funding round requires HR and financial due diligence in a matter of weeks. A board asks for a full compliance health-check across every discipline at once. A sector benchmarking study needs data no off-the-shelf report can provide. A division wants a documented process flow before it re-engineers a set of occupations, or a training needs analysis to back up a skills development plan.
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Every discipline inside LBD Consultants generates practical, hard-won knowledge, from CCMA case handling to WSP/ATR compliance to management accounts. Our Training Division exists to package that knowledge into courses, workshops and webinars your teams can actually use.
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LBD Consultants runs the labour law advisory services South Africa employers turn to for the highest-stakes work in the business.
LBD Consultants provides the HR consulting services South African companies rely on when they need senior HR expertise without the overhead of a full in-house team.
Running payroll in-house is time-consuming, and a single missed PAYE or UIF deadline can trigger penalties from SARS. That is why growing businesses across South Africa turn to LBD Consultants for payroll.
Clean, accurate books are the foundation of every good business decision, yet many growing companies fall behind on reconciliations, VAT filings and monthly reporting.
Once your business registers for the skills development levy, the Skills Development Levies Act requires you to appoint a Skills Development Facilitator.
Employment equity compliance in South Africa has moved fast since the Employment Equity Amendment Act came into force, and the numerical targets catch many designated employers off guard.
Not every need fits neatly into a single service line. A funding round requires HR and financial due diligence in a matter of weeks. A board asks for a full compliance health-check across every discipline at once.
Every discipline inside LBD Consultants generates practical, hard-won knowledge, from CCMA case handling to WSP/ATR compliance to management accounts.
LBD Consultants provides digital marketing services built specifically for IT, engineering, skills development and training-sector employers.