South Africans still impacted by lockdown restrictions, including those working in the entertainment industry, are eligible to apply for the Covid-19 temporary employer/employee relief scheme.
“Employees whose employers are not permitted to commence operations either partially or in full in terms of the regulations published by the minister of co-operative governance and traditional affairs on June 27 2021 and any other thereafter in terms of section 27 of the Disaster Management Act pursuant to the declaration of the national disaster dated March 15 2020,” states the document.
Successful applicants should receive a payment of R3,500 or more, including any contributions from employers. During this extension, the fund will be paid directly to employees to ensure it is not pocketed by employers, as seen in previous phases.“We have learnt the lesson from the previous phases that some unscrupulous employers did not advance the funds to their employees, and it is for that reason we have opted for this mode of payment,” said Yawa.
“As a result of the nonpayment of workers, the UIF and the entire department were inundated with a lot of complaints as workers could see in the system that funds had been released but had not been paid by their employers, who kept the Covid-19 Ters funds for themselves.”
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