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Employment Equity amendment enable DoEL to set your company’s goals and targets
An already highly stressed South African economy will have 1 more cross to bear in 2022 with the latest Employment Equity amendments definitely set to impact your company if you are a designated employer who is legally obligated to comply with all the provisions of...
Amendment of the EE Bill enters the last leg as the Department of Employment and Labour gears for sector-targets era
The Department of Employment and Labour’s Employment Equity (EE) Directorate is gearing itself for the implementation and enforcement of the new EE Act once the parliamentary processes are finalised by March 2022. The Director: Employment Equity, Ntsoaki Mamashela...
Compensation for Domestic Workers: precedent set
(Photograph by Ihsaan Haffejee) “It’s unbelievable. We feel like flying, we are so happy. I nearly broke into song inside [the Constitutional Court], breaking the law…” These were the words of 77-year-old Eunice Dhladhla, a domestic workers’ union organiser, after the...
11 IMPORTANT Tips for claiming UIF
While UIF is overwhelmed with claims and urgent pleas for assistance, there are some things that claimers can do, to be proactive in finding out the reason for the delay in payment. Your employment history and associated documentation is of utmost importance and if...
Women’s month: Gender pay gaps (part 2)
It can be argued that Previously Disadvantaged individuals, which the Employment Equity Act strives to champion the cause of, includes not just African, Indian and Coloured employees, and the disabled sector of the community, but also pertains to underpaid women of...
Women’s month: Gender pay gaps (part 1)
August is Women’s month in South Africa, with 9th August specifically, commemorating the more than 20 000 women who, in 1956, marched in peaceful protest, to the Union buildings in Pretoria to petition against the use of an internal pass. The purpose of which was to...
UIF: A work in progress
Temporary Employee / Employer Relief is the name of the game in the country at the moment. Initially bandied around as one of the safeguards intended to ensure that South Africans and companies would be able to survive what was to become level 5 of lockdown, has...
TERS Payment Breakdown Report
In response to the need for detailed lists of which staff have had TERS Claims successfully paid out and at what value, please note that UIF have added a button on the portal “Payment Breakdown report”. Log into and click on this button for the breakdown. Kind regards...
TERS UIF Guidelines for submitting online
Good Day All, From a business point of view, the hot topic of the day is most certainly the TERS UIF applications. KZNEIA and its partners as well as the Coastal Alliance Associations have been hard at work today dealing with copious questions from our members and...
Finalised TERS Amendments
URGENT NOTICE: The Gazetted Amendments wrt TERS has been finalised with critical changes inserted after clause 3.7 of the Directive: 3.8.1 An employer whose employees are entitled to receive covid-19 benefits provided by the Unemployment Insurance Fund during the...